A Thesis Is a Product Is a Tracking

In this work, I discuss how global products/ identities are made, transported and consumed, and the inevitable ‘mis-’ in acts of transmission. This research ranges from the miscommunication in languages and linguistics, to the gap between production and consumption. I investigate how things and huma...

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Main Author: Li, Yixue
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5920
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7025&context=etd
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Summary:In this work, I discuss how global products/ identities are made, transported and consumed, and the inevitable ‘mis-’ in acts of transmission. This research ranges from the miscommunication in languages and linguistics, to the gap between production and consumption. I investigate how things and humans are misread, mispronounced, misfit and mistranslated when they traverse social and cultural borders, arriving at a place in between languages, holding on to and letting go of things that are familiar to neither and both cultures. This work explores diverse media such as publications, videos and installations, and examines how they maybe used to address such contexts as factory production, global trade, circulation and tracking of commodities as well as identities.