All Outputs (31)
Art, cinema, sex, ontology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the in-visible of cinema (2010)
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The living, the dead and the imagery of emptiness and re-appearance on the battlefields of the western front (2010)
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Taking as its field of enquiry the trenches of the First World War, this chapter explores the processes of death, burial and exhumation on the Western Front. Deserted by daytime, yet crowded with action at night, the Great War battlefield was a letha... Read More about The living, the dead and the imagery of emptiness and re-appearance on the battlefields of the western front.
Does Nature stay what it is? (2010)
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The problem addressed in this paper is twofold. Firstly, what are the implications of a powers metaphysics for materialism? Secondly, assuming power to be an antithetical concept to substance, what becomes of the idea of nature under such a metaphysi... Read More about Does Nature stay what it is?.
Borrowing (2010)
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This article offers an overview of qualitative and quantitative approaches to borrowing (the incorporation of features of one language into another). The focus is on the integration of borrowed words into recipient languages, and on sociolinguistic,... Read More about Borrowing.
Holy Hiatus (2010)
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Holy Hiatus: performing ritual, community and place An illustrated full colour book documenting and contextualising a series of temporary public art projects called “Holy Hiatus” curated by Ruth Jones in Cardi... Read More about Holy Hiatus.
The presence of absence: Song, ritual, and place (2010)
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This book documents and provides a critical context for 5 temporary public art works that took place in May 2008, made by artists Alastair MacLennan, Simon Whitehead, Maura Hazelden, Yvonne Buchheim and Anna Lucas. My chapter discusses the relationsh... Read More about The presence of absence: Song, ritual, and place.
The artist as shaman: the work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates (2010)
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In this essay, I reflect on Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates’ engagement with the ethnographic side of the shaman’s role, discussing the way in which each could be said, in different ways and for different reasons, to ‘adopt’ or refer to it in their ar... Read More about The artist as shaman: the work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates.
The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development (2010)
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A conference paper challenging the popular view of artists, spread by the media over many years is of aesthetes with no commercial acumen and a distinct lack of time management. Examples of this go as far back as 1962 with Tony Hancock in the film th... Read More about The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development.
Haneke's stable: The death of the animal and the figuration of the human (2010)
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An analysis of the representation of animal death in the films of Michael Haneke and its relation to his use of human actors.
Lee Kang-sheng: Non-professional star (2010)
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An analysis of the performances of the Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng and his influence on the director Tsai Ming-liang.
Cyberwomen and sleepers: Rereading the mulatta cyborg and the black woman's body in Torchwood (2010)
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A book chapter exploring the science fiction trope of the mulatta cyborg in the BBC television series Torchwood.
Quantitative, qualitative or both? Combining methods in linguistic research (2010)
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When is a diplomat not a diplomat? The office of the High Commissioner (2010)
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Raum (2010)
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F.W.J. Schelling, 'On the World Soul', Translation and Introduction (2010)
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This is the first partial translation of F.W.J. Schelling’s On the World Soul (1798) into English, and is accompanied by my Introduction to that work. The translation draws on the recent edition of the work produced in the Historisch-kritische Ausgab... Read More about F.W.J. Schelling, 'On the World Soul', Translation and Introduction.
Using textbook and real life data to teach turn taking in business meetings (2010)
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Essaying place: Landscape, music, and memory (after Janet Wolff) (2010)
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This chapter details my use of the work of Janet Wolff in relation to the Southdean project and in the context of a developing understanding of “essaying” derived from the philosopher of place Edward S. Casey in relation to a major forthcoming paper... Read More about Essaying place: Landscape, music, and memory (after Janet Wolff).