Framing of the Dangerous: The Artwork between New Materialism and William S. Burroughs
| Thesis title in Czech: | Rámování nebezpečného: Umělecké dílo mezi novým materialismem a Williamem S. Burroughsem |
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| Thesis title in English: | Framing of the Dangerous: The Artwork between New Materialism and William S. Burroughs |
| Key words: | nový materialismus|dynamismus|umělecké dílo|umění|živé tělo|Elizabeth Grosz|William S. Burroughs |
| English key words: | New Materialism|dynamism|artwork|art|living body|Elizabeth Grosz|William S. Burroughs |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2019/2020 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR) |
| Supervisor: | Mgr. Milan Kroulík |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 03.06.2020 |
| Date of assignment: | 03.06.2020 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 23.07.2021 |
| Date and time of defence: | 08.09.2021 09:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 06.08.2021 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 08.09.2021 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | prof. Mgr. Miroslav Petříček, Dr. |
| Guidelines |
| This bachelor thesis deals with the issues concerning artworks from the perspective of New Materialism and, as a specific example, the visual artworks, texts, and quotations by William S. Burroughs. New Materialist ontology as a reaction to ontological dualism provides a philosophical ground for investigating the work of art as an animated thing – a creature – rather than a passive, inanimate object. This not only provides possibly creative concepts concerning works of art, but it also introduces new possibilities in philosophy to conceptualize interactions between organic and inorganic matter. Partly with respect to the prerequisites of the theoretical backgrounds of this thesis, the main goal is not to provide another definition of the category “art”, but rather to show the blurred and overlapping edges of the categories we use when we are being confronted with works of art. In the thesis, this is shown on the works of William S. Burroughs, whose approach to art and potentially “everything“ surrounding a person, can be seen as a material turn in the practice of the artist. |
| References |
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