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The Merging of Fact and Fiction Binaries Within Suicide

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2007

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Jansen, Monique
Charlton, James

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Thesis

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Master of Arts in Art and Design

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Auckland University of Technology

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This explorative research examines a contemporary representation for suicide. Utilizing a dualistic framework of biology and technology, I codify diverse theoretical discourses into why people commit suicide. My practical research then merges opposing binaries of 'fact' (the need to understand) within 'fiction' (the need to tell narratives). In context of this study a person who has taken their own life is the 'author' and the researcher is the 'reader' of this event ‐ I investigate how the reader imposes their own narrative upon the author.

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Suicide, Life, Contemporary, Technology, Narrative, Framework, Heavens Gate

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/171

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