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Academic Research and Projects

"Most Recent Research?"

As a Master's student in a thesis-based program, the most significant part of my studies was to successfully deliver and defend a thesis. Consequently, besides the academic projects I did during this period, I also presented to the faculty members of the Department of Social Sciences and Higher Studies of Art at TUA a thesis in aesthetics. 

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To read more about my thesis and find out what academic projects I did, scroll down!

​The Relationship between Aesthetics and Boredom in Kierkegaard’s Philosophy with Special Focus on Either/Or

Abstract

Boredom has been one of the basic concerns of modern man from the beginning of the modern era. As an existential philosopher, Kierkegaard talks about boredom as a mood which is a characteristic of the aesthetic life – a life-view based on seeking pleasure and immediacy. From his point of view, the most fundamental task of life is the task of becoming an individual; and moods play a vital role in taking the first steps towards this goal. Thus, the relationship between aesthetics and boredom becomes important for us, and I intend to investigate the role of boredom in relation to the different meanings of aesthetics. Either/or, the novelistic work of Kierkegaard, is the main source of this research, which contains numerous aesthetic essays and autobiographic fragments that introduce us to the aesthetic life-view and aesthetic insights of the author. In the first volume of this book, through one of the essays of "A" - the aesthete -, which is entitled "Crop Rotation", we are presented with the most comprehensive views of Kierkegaard on boredom. In this thesis, after I cover the aesthetics in A’s life and views and its relation to boredom while going through the text word-by-word, I aim to shed more light on Kierkegaard's aesthetics as an author which is reflected in Either/or as a literary work. Kierkegaard is a religious poet who applies a special kind of aesthetics in his pseudonymous works with a key quality in the method of communication: Indirect Communication. I will argue that in proportion to the aesthetic approach we obtain, one can either overcome boredom or can keep intensifying it and stay in the loop of aesthetic life.

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What's more? The following projects are some of the academic projects I did for various courses

â–ª "Memory and Art, and Demarginalization of History in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis", December 2024
â–ª “Coffee Lover” stop motion animation, Art and Ecology, December 2024
â–ª “Paper on Ink” installation, Creativity Workshop, December 2024
â–ª “There’s No Us in U” calligraphy piece, Proseminar, October 2024

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