Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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On (Digital) Photographic Image-Objects: Atomic Bits, Accelerated Bodies, Evidence, Decay

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Thomas, Jennifer, Thesis advisor (ths): Bordo, Jonathan, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>On the first page of the much read, Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes reveals his motive: "I was overcome by an "ontological" desire: I wanted to learn at all costs what Photography was "in itself," by what essential feature it was to be distinguished from the community of images." The impetus of this thesis might be called a Barthesian desire to learn what… more

The Agony of Writing Or Ambivalent Reversal In Baudrillard's Stylistic Metamorphoses

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): McFarlane, David Andrew, Thesis advisor (ths): Junyk, Ihor, Thesis advisor (ths): Wernick, Andrew, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Following Baudrillard's conceptual and stylistic shift of the mid-70s, this thesis argues that said shift is accounted for by understanding the ontological quandary Baudrillard found himself in after developing a theoretical agonism impossible to divorce from the practice of writing. By tracing the conceptual metamorphoses of key terms including semiotic ambivalence, symbolic… more