Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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The Transcendental Turn: Kant's Critical Philosophy, Contemporary Theory, And Popular Culture

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mitchell, Kevin Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Holdsworth, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This dissertation traces the concept of transcendentalism from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to Michel Foucault's historical a priori and Pierre Bourdieu's field and habitus, with implicit reference to Deleuze's `transcendental empiricism,' and the influence this trajectory has had on contemporary theory and culture. This general conceptual framework is… more

Control, Surveillance and Subjective Commodification on Facebook

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Revoy, Spencer, Thesis advisor (ths): Mitchell, Liam, Degree committee member (dgc): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Murakami Wood, David, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis is a theoretical study of Facebook's surveillance project. It begins by taking one of the predominant organizational forms of modern surveillance, Foucaultian panopticism, and examining the ways in which its form, along with Foucault's broader model of the disciplinary society, is realized, remixed and extended by Facebook's virtual form. Following this… more