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(University of Pretoria, 1979)No abstract
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Revitalizing the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ : a Kenneth Burkean diagnosis of symbolic (dis)orders (Routledge, 2021)This paper offers a new perspective on the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ especially within dialogue around ‘design for sustainability’ (DfS) by applying and advancing the work of twentieth-century rhetorical theorist and ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of “witches”. Some witches’ stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping ...
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(University of Kwazulu-Natal, 2019)The ordinary archive of the racially oppressed in South Africa offers a critical lens through which to interrogate notions of resistance, subjectivities and freedom. This paper considers these questions by examining the ...
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(Routledge, 2020-05)Over the past few decades, numerous prominent authors in various spheres of design discourse have discussed the rhetorical potency of type “icons” and how they come to embody cultural connotation. As icons, typefaces ...
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(South African Museums Association, 2019-12)Throughout history, society has celebrated and elevated events and people with visible monuments, structures, or sculptures in prominent public positions for symbolic, historical, powerful veneration, admiration and ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-09)The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as ...
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(Routledge, 2021)This paper interrogates the identities in the representations of women adorned in African cultural dress forms in contemporary Nigerian paintings. While many studies have explored the subject of African dress forms from ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study explores the phenomenon of kitsch as found and embraced within contemporary Afrikaner culture. The two spheres that this study specifically looks at is that of popular mega church, Christian Revival Church (CRC), ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Over the past forty years, studies concerning visual rhetoric have become increasingly prevalent, seeping into multiple areas of research, from visual studies to architecture and design. Robin Kinross’s The rhetoric of ...
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(IGI Global, 2020)This article uses a philosophical hermeneutic perspective to present a reading of selected astronaut space selfies by drawing on ideas of Michel Serres, Paul Virilio, Hannah Arendt, Bonnie Mann, Joanna Zylinska, Nicholas ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In this study I explore the Waterberg plateau, Namibia, through identified sand sites in the area, looking into their ecology, geology, culture, and history. I use sand as an artistic medium, not only for its aesthetic ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2021-06)When COVID-19 rapidly spread across the globe in 2020, and people were either encouraged or forced to self-isolate and stay at home, for many, the only way to “keep in touch” with family, friends, peers and colleagues was ...
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(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2020)In his biography on Chesterton, the poet and journalist, William Richard Titterton (1876-1963) noted of his friend that he was always busy writing, and if he was writing, then he was drawing. He would write on any piece ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2020)In the short story “Princess” (Slipping: Stories, Essays and Other Writing. San Francisco: Tachyon, 2016), Lauren Beukes presents a tale of a princess who discovers her clitoris. Subsequent to this discovery, the princess's ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Social media can be perceived as forging one’s relationships and influencing one’s world view, but has it always allowed individuals to connect meaningfully? It mesmerises and grips the mind of its users. It fascinates, ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-08)BACKGROUND: South African scholarship on intellectual disability has produced a sizeable body of research, yet there are numerous areas where there is a paucity of research. One area in which there is a conspicuous paucity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This dissertation uses Heidegger’s critique of technology and its essence in an attempt to understand how Virtual Reality technology can change how we interact with the world and each other. The history of VR devices is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study offers a philosophical hermeneutic of design. It aims to achieve this by exploring William Desmond’s metaphysics, specifically his fourfold sense of being, and how it relates to design. Desmond’s fourfold sense ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study explored the practice of creating subjective autobiographies through reflective methods and relevant theoretical concerns. Autobiographical bandes dessineés (autobioBDs) is a trend in European comics that is ...