PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2018, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture

In his book Difference and Repetition, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze distinguishes between two theories of repetition, one associated with the `Platonic' theory and the other with the `Nietzschean' theory. Repetition in the `Platonic' theory, via the criterion of accuracy, can be identified as a repetition of homogeneity, using pre-established similitude or identity to repeat the Same, while repetition in the `Nietzschean' theory, via the criterion of authenticity, is aligned with the virtual rather than real, producing simulacra or phantasms as a repetition of heterogeneity. It is argued in this dissertation that the distinction that Deleuze forms between modes of repetition has a vital role in his innovative approaches to the Nietzschean's notion of `eternal return' as a differential ontology, offering numerous insights into work on issues of homogeneity and heterogeneity in a design process. Deleuze challenges the assumed capture within a conventional perspective by using German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's conception of the `eternal return.' This dissertation aims to question the conventional praxis of architecture and urban design formalisms through the impulse of `becoming' and `non- representational' thinking of Deleuze. The research attempts to conceptualize the relationship between history and the occurrence of new social contexts and to locate varying forms of active and temporal engagements with the material formations of cultural environments and historical sites. This dissertation explores the possibility of using history as a dynamic, intensive force in an architectural and urban design thinking process as a mean to escape the historicism and representational image functionary towards a re-engineered creative historical/architectural dialogue. The dissertation will conceptually analyze the difference between mimicking historical styles in a decontextualized manner and repeating them with difference using the theory of Difference and Repe (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Adrian Parr Ph.D. M.A. (Committee Chair); Laura Jenkins Ph.D. (Committee Member); Patrick Snadon Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Architecture

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Ohio University, 2015, Studio Art

In three movements, this paper analyzes the way in which apparatuses of capture and control govern our lives. In the first movement, environmental injustice is used to illustrate how apparatuses create, maintain, and destroy spaces and bodies, and allow or prevent certain bodies to speak. In the second movement, anecdotal theory is presented as a way in which bodies typically barred from modes of discourse can find a temporary platform from which to speak. In the third movement, the paper dissolves into poetics upon realization of its own containment within the apparatus of academia, and points towards a way in which all apparatuses could be overcome. Includes documentation from the art exhibition: Wastelands, Revolutions, Failures.

Committee: Katarzyna Marciniak Dr. (Advisor) Subjects: Environmental Justice; Linguistics; Philosophy; Political Science