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Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Formal Techniques and Self/Other Relations in the Novels of Dirk Bogarde
No full textThe thesis foregrounds the distinctive contribution Dirk Bogarde made to
contemporary writing in a second career that developed in parallel to his screen
commitments. It dispels the notion that Bogarde followed a familiar path as an actor
who wrote books. Instead it establishes his reputation as an innovative writer whose
formal technique was substantially influenced by the textual systems of cinema and
the cross-fertilisation from acting to writing.
In examining the formative factors that steered Bogarde towards authorship, the
thesis addresses the role of performance as a generative factor in the evolution of the
novels, establishing a discursive link with Bakhtinian dialogism, and specifically,
transgredience as a formal imperative. Secondly, it affords a critical insight into why
the major concerns with staging and performativity preoccupy his writing career.
The thesis claims that Bogarde was an empirically dialogical writer whose use
of camera-eye narration fostered the proliferation of competing discourses across the
fiction. This formal dynamic is centred on the relationship between stages and
dialogism, which incorporates the work of Erving Goffinan as a complementary
critique to Bakhtinian theory with its emphasis on self-presentation. The concern
with socially-constructed behaviour leads the thesis to address the associated issues of
stereotyping and 'otherness', which in terms of body politics is articulated by the
mono logic drive to confine the sexual 'other' to a fixed representation.
Bogarde's ability to draw on cinematic and performance techniques identifies
an area of expertise unavailable to most other writers. This is an unusual repository
of skills to bring to writing which is why the thesis makes the claim for his singular
achievement as a contemporary author. There are fruitful points of intersection to be
explored in this respect with the work of Christopher Isherwood, whom Bogarde read
and admired, as a basis for further research. It is hoped that the thesis will play its
part in opening up new possibilities for Bogarde's writing to be re-visited by future
critics
"The end of national models? Integration courses and citizenship trajectories in Europe"
No full textSeveral European countries have recently introduced or are planning to introduce citizenship trajectories (voluntary or obligatory inclusion programs for recent immigrants) or citizen integration tests (tests one should pass to be able and acquire permanent residence or state citizenship). Authors like Joppke claim this is an articulation of a more general shift towards the logic of assimilation (and away from a multicultural agenda) in integration policy paradigms of European States. Integration policies would even be converging in such a fashion that it would no longer make sense to think in terms of national models for immigrant integration. One cannot deny the empirical fact of diffusion of civic integration policies throughout Europe. This paper claims there is, however, still sufficient distinctiveness between immigrant integration policies in order to continue and use an analytical framework which distinguishes national models
Humanisme na Heidegger
No full textDirk Derom heeft in Leuven de studie van 'maatschappelijk assistent' aangevat en drie jaar later afgerond. Hij vulde deze aan met een diploma in de wijsbegeerte (VUB). Hier heeft hij zich, onder impuls van professor Marc Van den Bossche, vooral gericht op de fenomenologie. Heidegger nam hier een dominante positie in, maar anderen volgden. Momenteel is hij doctoraatsstudent aan de VUB waarbij professor Marc Van den Bossche mijn promoter is. Zijn interesse gaat uit naar o.a. pragmatisme, praktische filosofie en hermeneutische hulpverlening.Mijn onderzoek richt zich op het werk van Heidegger in de periode 1919-1927. Het humanisme dat ik hieruit distilleer, breekt met het heersende humanisme én met de gangbare secundaire literatuur over Heidegger. Bovendien reikt het verder dan de humanistische analyse die Heidegger zelf ooit wilde geven. Aan de hand van een nauwkeurige lezing van de voorgenoemde periode wordt de argumentatie zodanig opgebouwd dat de opening tot een ander-s humanisme naar voren komt.
Zo een ander-s humanisme verzet zich tegen de afwijzing van een Daseinsanalyse. Dit ander-s humanisme ziet daarentegen in de Daseinsanalyse de mogelijkheid een humanisme uit te bouwen dat recht doet aan de mens, zijn omgeving en de rol die de mens in dit geheel speelt. Humanisme wordt zo een vastberaden bevraging van de humanistische attitude. Het hermeneutisch denken blijkt hier een weldadige voedingsbodem voor een humanisme dat uitgaat van een voortdurende wisselwerking tussen mens en wereld.
Op die manier biedt het een alternatief voor een rationeel én religieus dogmatisch denken. De stichtende Verlichtingsidee wordt op die manier genuanceerd. Verwevenheid, facticiteit en vastbeslotenheid blijken kernwoorden van een ander-s humanisme – woorden die de kernbegrippen autonomie, paternalisme, empirie, multiculturaliteit en hulpverlening herschrijven
A brief choice of films
No full textMelbourne experimental filmamaker Dirk de Bruyn together with sound artist Joel Stern created a hallucinating mixture of light, movement and sound in the small basement of the Urban Espresso Bar. Dirk De Bruyn and Joel Stren gave an author talk at 8:30 pm on 13th October 2009<br
Printable Cement-Based Materials: Fresh Properties Measurements and Control
No full textDigital fabrication with cementitious materials is a rapidly growing field of research in which the evolution of strength during the various processes, such as 3D printing, is the key controlling parameter. The strength evolves over multiple orders of magnitude during the process, and thus, it is essential to properly characterize the strength evolution in order to guarantee process success. This chapter summarizes the state of the art in these characterization methods for digital fabrication with fresh cementitious materials, reviewing well-known and more recently developed methods.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Concrete Structure
Letter to Dirk J. Van Bommel (February 11, 1916)
No full textA letter to Dirk J. Van Bommel from someone attached to the Laurence L. Doggetts' office at Springfield College, dated February 11, 1916. The author is unknown. Laurence L. Doggett, president of Springfield College, asked that Van Bommel be contacted. The letter informs Van Bommel that the money he sent was received.Dirk J. Van Bommel graduated from Springfield College in 1911. After graduation, he worked as a secretary for the International Committee in Constantinople. In 1920, Springfield College awarded him an honorary Master of Humanics. Two years later, Van Bommel was hired as secretary to the National Council in Turkey. He died on November 9, 1953
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