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Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis
The moulid—a popular festival in Egypt that celebrates venerated figures—has become an object of sanitization and ritualization by the state and state religion. The moulid has become an opposite figure of modernity. It has become meaningful as a familiar irrational messy thing that confuses rational...
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| author | Van Coillie, Marlies Lieve T. |
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| description | The moulid—a popular festival in Egypt that celebrates venerated figures—has become an object of sanitization and ritualization by the state and state religion. The moulid has become an opposite figure of modernity. It has become meaningful as a familiar irrational messy thing that confuses rational knowledge about the moulid. Rather than abstracting the meaning of the moulid as something senseless, the thesis illuminates how messiness generates meaningful knowledge. The thesis immanently plunges in the moulid to trace how through materials, objects, and bodies the festival comes into being. In telling a material story through participant observation and in taking Ingold’s dwelling perspective, the thesis questions how nonhuman stories can make the stories of humans leak to arrive at a singular new material anthropology of the moulid. By attending to mimetic things, the thesis unearths the modern claim on the emancipatory nature of reason. The thesis defamiliarizes the modern human mapping that univocally categorizes the moulid by exploring how the moulid defies any norm referent in its multivocality. One of its senses shows how the moulid has become an inhabitable ground for the creation of public art, without the thesis assuming public space to be a given. The thesis conceptualizes the moulid as a landscape that explores its potentialities to articulate an otherwise to modern capitalism in order to express an immanent ethics of joyful hope amidst a necropolitical temporality. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-2784 Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis Van Coillie, Marlies Lieve T. The moulid—a popular festival in Egypt that celebrates venerated figures—has become an object of sanitization and ritualization by the state and state religion. The moulid has become an opposite figure of modernity. It has become meaningful as a familiar irrational messy thing that confuses rational knowledge about the moulid. Rather than abstracting the meaning of the moulid as something senseless, the thesis illuminates how messiness generates meaningful knowledge. The thesis immanently plunges in the moulid to trace how through materials, objects, and bodies the festival comes into being. In telling a material story through participant observation and in taking Ingold’s dwelling perspective, the thesis questions how nonhuman stories can make the stories of humans leak to arrive at a singular new material anthropology of the moulid. By attending to mimetic things, the thesis unearths the modern claim on the emancipatory nature of reason. The thesis defamiliarizes the modern human mapping that univocally categorizes the moulid by exploring how the moulid defies any norm referent in its multivocality. One of its senses shows how the moulid has become an inhabitable ground for the creation of public art, without the thesis assuming public space to be a given. The thesis conceptualizes the moulid as a landscape that explores its potentialities to articulate an otherwise to modern capitalism in order to express an immanent ethics of joyful hope amidst a necropolitical temporality. 2020-05-31T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1752 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2784/viewcontent/VANCOLLIE_marlies_thesis_2020.pdf The American University in Cairo grants authors of theses and dissertations a maximum embargo period of two years from the date of submission, upon request. After the embargo elapses, these documents are made available publicly. If you are the author of this thesis or dissertation, and would like to request an exceptional extension of the embargo period, please write to thesisadmin@aucegypt.edu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain moulid material landscape event human necropolitics mimesis Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| spellingShingle | moulid material landscape event human necropolitics mimesis Social and Behavioral Sciences Van Coillie, Marlies Lieve T. Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis |
| title | Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis |
| title_full | Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis |
| title_fullStr | Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis |
| title_short | Toy-stories of the (im)material life of things: public art of becoming in the moulidbodies, objects, mimesis |
| title_sort | toy stories of the im material life of things public art of becoming in the moulidbodies objects mimesis |
| topic | moulid material landscape event human necropolitics mimesis Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1752 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2784/viewcontent/VANCOLLIE_marlies_thesis_2020.pdf |
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