What is the symbolic potential of Glitch in popular culture? That question animates this cultural critique, which argues that modern representations of glitch phenomena in popular culture are part of a significant pattern of communication. In the age of hyper-networked, polymedi…
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The geopolitical significance of Pakistan in the Global War on Terror has led to multiple instances of the US acting in an extra-territorial manner. Repeated territorial intrusion by the US strains US-Pakistan relations because extra-territoriality is viewed as a violation of Pa…
Barabudur is one of the largest and most complex Buddhist monuments in the world. Built in the late eighth or early ninth century by the Shailendra kings of Central Java, Barabudur lay nearly buried for centuries. Scholars have studied the monument since the early nineteenth cen…
During the nineteenth century picturing Africa was an act of appropriation primarily because representations presented the continent itself as a commodity. I propose that the idea of “knowability” through representation is at the heart of colonization and creates the perception …
Beginning with that infamous image of Colonel Christopher Gadseen's snake and the words "Don't tread on me," the founding of the United States of America is filled with the images of protest and expressions against an established group. Susanne Langer began to define the meeting…
This project examines vernacular, soldier-produced and official, military-produced videos posted on YouTube during the War in Iraq. The purpose of this project is three fold: (a) to explore vernacular memorializing and argumentation on YouTube as an alternative to government and…
This dissertation examines the cultural practices of the 2018 Malcolm X Festival, hosted by the Pan-African Connection: Bookstore, Art Gallery, and Resource Center on May 19, 2018. Analyzing literacy practices, rhetorical theory, and visual rhetoric, this dissertation project ex…
Public art, such as graffiti, street art and murals are powerful vessels of ontological expression that allow nuanced and contextual ideas to be communicated to and about the communities that they exist within. Charlotte (NC) has emerged as a worthy site for analyzing such artif…
Black political art has been an important element of Black liberation efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Black artist-activists of the past and present have demonstrated a concern with systems of oppression that perpetuate multiple forms of racial trauma in the lives of Bla…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the rhetorical nature of visual artifacts in a postcolonial context. In order to examine the nature of visual artifacts as a form of resistance against static ideologies and prevailing power structures, the author uses both media an…
This dissertation argues that Palestinian and Arab political cartoons participate in building the Palestinian nationalist project in opposition to "the Israeli occupation" through their dissemination of patriotic feelings across deceptively simple cultural symbols. My dissertati…