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Making Magic: Theorizing Enchantment in Aesthetic Practices of Worldmaking

Ahmadi, Parisa Rose
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692324759304952

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
This dissertation theorizes the concept of enchantment, articulating it as an orientation towards affects, embodied experiences, and material cultures. The experience of enchantment is amplified by confusing space and time, calling forth social fantasies, and attuning oneself to the natural world. Enchantment is also a potent energizing force, capable of transforming the world around it, whether by arranging subjects and relationships in ways that produce and maintain antiblackness, orientalism, and misogyny, or offering life-giving possibilities that resist the harm of hegemonic forces. Enchantment informs grotesque and fantastical representations of racialized subjects and encourages sustained investment in consumer practices that are never satisfied. Yet enchantment also resides in moments of respite, wonder, and nostalgia for subaltern people. This dissertation aligns the life-giving possibilities of enchantment with creative practice and expression, demonstrating how imagination and fantasy allow the formation of new and more expansive worlds where marginalized peoples can thrive. Yet even while engaging in liberative artistic praxis, subjects must often negotiate dominant capitalist and colonial logics that inform the materials and practices of their world-making.
Maurice Stevens (Advisor)
Dorothy Noyes (Committee Member)
Ashley Pérez (Advisor)
163 p.
Aesthetics; African American Studies; African Americans; African History; Art Criticism; Arts Management; Asian American Studies; Asian Studies; Black Studies; Comparative; Comparative Literature; Cultural Anthropology; Design; Ethics; Ethnic Studies; Fine Arts; Gender; Gender Studies; Mass Media; Social Structure; Sociology; Spirituality; Technology; Theater; Theology; Therapy; Womens Studies
Enchantment; Artistic Practice; Praxis; Race; Sara Baartman; Afong Moy; Critical Race Studies; Afro-pessimism; Afrofuturism; Selfie; Arts; Anna Mae Wong; Orientalism; Artistic Praxis; Applied Arts; Installation; Interior design; Consumerism; Collecting; Collections; Architectural Digest; YouTube; Antiblackness; Garden; Magic; Marvel; Enchant

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  • Ahmadi, P. R. (2023). Making Magic: Theorizing Enchantment in Aesthetic Practices of Worldmaking [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692324759304952

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ahmadi, Parisa. Making Magic: Theorizing Enchantment in Aesthetic Practices of Worldmaking. 2023. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692324759304952.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ahmadi, Parisa. "Making Magic: Theorizing Enchantment in Aesthetic Practices of Worldmaking." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692324759304952

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