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(this never happened): Queer monstrosity, survival, & the monstrous-feminine on stage & screen

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In what ways are monstrosity, the abject, and queerness connected? What are the mechanisms by which we as a culture twist perceptions of difference into denouncements of monstrous otherness? How can we use creation as a tool for healing? How do we move toward something other than blood? <em>(this never happened) </em>is a performance text and intertextual exploration of staged horror, queer monstrosity, the monstrous-feminine, and trauma theory through the lens of playwriting and performance. It seeks to complicate notions of monstrosity and the abject and attempts to reconcile the isolation of individual monstrosity with the potential of the abject as a site of social upheaval and creation, while finding a space within the horror genre for both rage and catharsis.
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Underground or under ground: punk, death, and transcendence in an unreal world

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The truism that punk is dead reverberates throughout basements, record stores, and community centers across the world. What does this mean? Was punk ever alive? What does punk even mean in the first place? This thesis seeks to explore these questions and the ways in which punk–as an iconic iteration of "authentic identity" through cultural antagonism and opposition– has been increasingly challenged by the modern world, the modern technological field, and the corresponding shifting terms of popular cultural logic. It interrogates how self-described punks and deviants express this notion that "punk is dead," mourn its mythological vitality, and seek to transcend to an imagined afterlife, as well as what these negotiations say about the cultural concerns and anxieties that loom over contemporary living under late capitalism.
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:19

Underground or under ground: punk, death, and transcendence in an unreal world

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The truism that punk is dead reverberates throughout basements, record stores, and community centers across the world. What does this mean? Was punk ever alive? What does punk even mean in the first place? This thesis seeks to explore these questions and the ways in which punk–as an iconic iteration of "authentic identity" through cultural antagonism and opposition– has been increasingly challenged by the modern world, the modern technological field, and the corresponding shifting terms of popular cultural logic. It interrogates how self-described punks and deviants express this notion that "punk is dead," mourn its mythological vitality, and seek to transcend to an imagined afterlife, as well as what these negotiations say about the cultural concerns and anxieties that loom over contemporary living under late capitalism.
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:19

Underground or under ground: punk, death, and transcendence in an unreal world

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The truism that punk is dead reverberates throughout basements, record stores, and community centers across the world. What does this mean? Was punk ever alive? What does punk even mean in the first place? This thesis seeks to explore these questions and the ways in which punk–as an iconic iteration of "authentic identity" through cultural antagonism and opposition– has been increasingly challenged by the modern world, the modern technological field, and the corresponding shifting terms of popular cultural logic. It interrogates how self-described punks and deviants express this notion that "punk is dead," mourn its mythological vitality, and seek to transcend to an imagined afterlife, as well as what these negotiations say about the cultural concerns and anxieties that loom over contemporary living under late capitalism.
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:19

A bug in the system: speculations on cybernetics, superorganisms, and simulated serendipity

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What is a cybernetic organism in the age of digital imagining? Where can we find a historical nexus between the methods used to models systems and the increasing velocity of digital images? How do bodies fracture and congeal when integrated in such an environment? How does image-based modeling move offline, producing and reproducing the systems it was meant to represent? When does an imaginative architecture become real? <em>A Bug in the System </em>is the culmination of a year-long research-intensive process coupled with a variety of digital studio practices. It takes the subject matter of scientific modeling of information systems–biological, mechanical, and digital–and weaves its histories into a complex, contingent, web based on the concrete instances, technologies, and media that facilitate this scientific methodology. The narrative for the studio-based practice, called "Colony Community," rides the line between fantasy and fact. It utilized actual events, people, and scanning techniques to embed it in the real, but uses dreams, performance, and irony to subvert any claim to authenticity.
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:19

A bug in the system: speculations on cybernetics, superorganisms, and simulated serendipity

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What is a cybernetic organism in the age of digital imagining? Where can we find a historical nexus between the methods used to models systems and the increasing velocity of digital images? How do bodies fracture and congeal when integrated in such an environment? How does image-based modeling move offline, producing and reproducing the systems it was meant to represent? When does an imaginative architecture become real? <em>A Bug in the System </em>is the culmination of a year-long research-intensive process coupled with a variety of digital studio practices. It takes the subject matter of scientific modeling of information systems–biological, mechanical, and digital–and weaves its histories into a complex, contingent, web based on the concrete instances, technologies, and media that facilitate this scientific methodology. The narrative for the studio-based practice, called "Colony Community," rides the line between fantasy and fact. It utilized actual events, people, and scanning techniques to embed it in the real, but uses dreams, performance, and irony to subvert any claim to authenticity.
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This land is your land: the socionatural construction of the socialist party of Oklahoma, 1907-1922

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Sowing seeds of resistance

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Stealing away: a study of the Black Studies Movement and its afterlife at Vassar College

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Food fight: the communal struggle for food justice in Poughkeepsie city schools

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