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- Kanhov, Elin, 1989-
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Encounters Between Music and Nature : A Productive and Transversal Approach to Contemporary Music Analysis
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines encounters between music and nature through a productive and transversal approach to music analysis with examples from the contemporary Western art music repertoire. In three analytical chapters, I study how contemporary music potentially reframes the positions and relations between music, humans and nature by engaging with transversal concepts from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s thinking and drawing upon Judy Lochhead’s approach to productive music analysis. In Joan La Barbara’s Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma tête for solo voice (1976) and Kaija Saariaho’s Laconisme de l’aile for solo flute and optional electronics (1982), I study affinities between humans and birds through the concept of becoming-bird. In John Luther Adam’s Inuksuit for percussion ensemble (2009), I engage with the notion of coexistence between humans and the environment with the concepts of milieu, rhythm, and deterritorialization. Lastly, in Helena Tulve’s Extinction des choses vues for large orchestra (2007), I argue that her music confronts aspects of musical organicism by producing ruptures from its own modes of order, activated by the concept of the Body without Organs. I examine moments when the music functions on the edge of discursivity, and when the materiality of sound, bodies, instruments, and technology informs and reshapes musical discourses and cultural conceptions of nature. I further position the study within the field of ecomusicology, and draw upon aspects of posthumanist and new materialist theory. I particularly investigate contemporary music from perspectives that question human-centered ways of thinking and being, as well as ostensibly rigid conceptions of nature that appear separate from the domain of culture. From these theoretical perspectives, I understand nature and culture as entangled material-discursive processes, where the relations between music, humans and nature are constantly renegotiated.The contributions of the study are threefold. Firstly, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the musical works and composers studied in the thesis, and the cultural context to which they belong. La Barbara’s and Saariaho’s compositions expand upon bird music in the Western art music repertoire; Adams is positioned within American percussion music and American environmentalism; and Tulve’s work reconfigures the aesthetic paradigm of musical organicism. Secondly, this thesis manifests how the fields of Deleuze-Guattarian philosophy, ecomusicology, as well as aspects of posthumanist and new materialist thought fruitfully contribute to one another, and how music research benefits from expanding its theoretical perspectives. Lastly, I demonstrate how the study of contemporary Western art music can encourage new methodological approaches, such as a productive and transversal approach to music analysis, as contemporary music and its changeable compositional techniques and strategies require creative solutions to analytical problems. In extension, I hope this thesis demonstrates how these encounters between music and nature may also foster new and fruitful understandings of the contemporary world we all inhabit.
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- Beckman, Frida, 1976-
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A Governmentality Perspective on Polycentric Governing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Polycentrism. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780192866837 - 9780191957765 ; , s. 305-324
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the tension between how we are governed and how we think we are governed. The diffusion and multiplication of centers, practices, and techniques of power in a polycentric world challenges philosophical and political traditions which assume that we are liberal subjects, and that political power can be located in the state. Adopting a Foucauldian perspective, the chapter maps such increasingly dispersed and diverse techniques of power as they develop to create a neoliberal society of control. Whereas older forms of disciplinary control relied on more centralized and therefore more readily identifiable forms of power, neoliberal control thrives on continuous modulations and variations of power, which thereby becomes more elusive. The dispersion and invisibility of neoliberal power encourages a spread of uncertainty and paranoia in the contemporary West. Uncertainty extends to everything including knowledge (e.g. what news is ‘true’ and what is ‘fake’) and identity (e.g. what can replace the liberal subject). The (increasingly desperate) will for certainty brings an intensification of extremist and nationalist identitarian forces. Through it all runs a legitimacy crisis that emerges from the clash between deep-rooted conceptions of the liberal subject and neoliberal modes that no longer operate on the basis of such conceptions.
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- Beckman, Frida, 1976-
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Ambivalent Screens : Quentin Tarantino and the Power of Vision
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Ingår i: Film-Philosophy. - : Edinburgh University Press. - 1466-4615. ; 19, s. 85-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reveling in the self-reflexive and the metacinematic, Quentin Tarantino's films are often associated with a Baudrillardian postmodernity. His most recent Inglorious Basterds (2009) continues in the same self-referential vein as his earlier films but adds a blatant falsification of history which pushes the question of the reality and images even further. But, this essay asks, is a Baudrillardian perspective the most fruitful one in comprehending the creative potential of Tarantino's latest film? Moving from Baudrillard through Virilio to Deleuze and Guattari, the essay explores ways in which the film's investment in vision and screens opens for a creative and enabling engagement with images - not cinema as truth, as Deleuze would have it, but the truth of cinema. As such, Tarantino's in many ways outrageous film provides an important contribution to analyzes of the relation between perceptions of the image and conceptions of the real and contributes to the politically crucial endeavor of understanding what images 'want.'
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- Beckman, Frida, 1976-
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Between desire and pleasure : a Deleuzian theory of sexuality
- 2013
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Explores the political, cultural and conceptual significance of sexual pleasure through Deleuze's philosophy. How is sexual pleasure inscribed into conceptions of the body, gender, health and the human? What is its role in the construction of these notions? And, most importantly, how can it contribute to an expansion of what they mean?Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman addresses these questions to recover a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work.Show more Show less
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- Beckman, Frida, 1976-
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Control and the Novel : Dave Eggers and Disciplinary Form
- 2020
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Ingår i: Modern fiction studies. - : Project Muse. - 0026-7724 .- 1080-658X. ; 60:3, s. 527-546
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay interrogates interrelations between the novel form and disciplinary power. Investigating debates regarding shifts between discipline and control as they have been delineated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, it explores how such shifts might affect the novel but also how literary portrayals of these changing dispositifs, such as those in Dave Eggers's novels The Circle and Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? may assist in the theoretical labor of grasping changing modes of power.
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- Beckman, Frida, 1976-
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Deleuze and Sex
- 2011
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