Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This three-part dissertation will consider both theoretical and practical implications that Baruch Spinoza's (1632-1677) immanent philosophical system holds for developing a contemporary "pedagogy of renaturalization." One of the intents of this thesis is to draw out how "intellectual slut shaming" is a naturalized part of neoliberal subjectivity. </p><p… more Full Text: A PEDAGOGY OF RENATURALIZATION: MOVING THROUGH AND BEYOND INTELLECTUAL SLUT SHAMING A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>On Tilt: The Inheritance and Inheritors of Digital Games accepts and extends Eric Zimmerman's contention that literacies currently being developed during video-game play will be more broadly applicable (outside games) in the next hundred years as Western work, education, entertainment, and citizenship spaces become ever more shaped like video games. </p><p> To the end of… more Full Text: On Tilt: The Inheritance and Inheritors of Digital Games A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2014, 2014
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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 Full Text: THE TRANSCENDENTAL TURN: KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, CONTEMPORARY THEORY, AND POPULAR CULTURE A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …
Year: 2014, 2014
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Abstract: <p>The dissertation explores and defends the theory and practice of a Western-Islamic public sphere (which is secular but not secularist and which is Islamic but not Islamist), within which a critical Islamic intellectual universe can unfold, dealing hermeneutically with texts and politically with lived practices, and which, moreover, has to emerge from within the arc of two alternative,… more Full Text: The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>My research examines the figure of the 'vagabond' as a case study to illustrate how 'modern' </p><p>perception of the 'vagabond' has depleted the diversities in its 'pre-modern' counterparts. It </p><p>argues that the paranoia towards the 'vagabond' was inherited from the west out of the </p><p>colonial… more Full Text: ARCHAEOLOGY OF VAGABONDAGE: SOUTH ASIA'S COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND AFTER A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
