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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Critical Posthumanism"”.
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Ambient Poetics and Critical Posthumanism in Expanded Cinema
Posthumanism is a contested term, seen by some as leading towards a merging of human bodies and technology and by others, more critically, as a renewal of the ethical debate regarding human exceptionalism. Through a study of this critical approach and its potential relation to expanded cinema, a …
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Reading Bernstein and Critical Posthumanism Diffractively Through One Another: Intra-activity Pedagogy
… through knowledge as conceptualised by critical posthumanists. The latter philosophical orientation (Braidotti, 2013) is based on the structuring of concepts like 'rhizomes’, that is, shooting in all directions without middle or end and with its blurred and indeterminate ontological …
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A posthuman reconfiguring of philosophy with children in a government primary school in South Africa
… in a whole primary school setting in the South. Critical posthumanism provides the theoretical framework to analyse philosophical enquiries as more than linguistic and always already material. I theorise with and draw on transdisciplinary scholarship and practices of philosophers/ theorists/ …
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Silence as Voice: Silence, the Body and the Decoloniality of Quiet in Raduan Nassar and Sara Gallardo’s novels of the country.
… poststructuralism, material feminism, critical posthumanism, and decolonial theory—this research reconceptualizes silence as an affordance of voice and a site of epistemic disobedience. Through close readings of literary silence, the dissertation develops a theory of reading as …
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The existence of the digital divide in African indigenous communities in accessing digital African Indigenous Games: a case study of Ga-Mamabolo oin Limpopo Province, South Africa
… was underpinned by the Diffusion of innovations, Critical posthumanism, and Sankofa theories. This study adopted qualitative participatory action research framed by interpretivism and indigenous research paradigms. The data was co-generated with 8 co-researchers who were children, youth, …
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Rehearsing New Opera: An Ethnographic Lens on Becoming Posthuman
… new opera at the intersection of opera studies, critical posthumanism and ethnography. My attention towards posthuman dynamics of space, time, repetition and failure provides insights into three widely discussed operas which disrupt canonical rehearsal practices: *7 Deaths of Maria Callas* …
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‘Undergoing' as posthuman literacy research in an in/formal settlement primary school in South Africa
My research began with a critical incident of my teaching performance being monitored in a British primary school classroom. A dis/continuous re-turning to the incident catalyses analysis of concepts in education and the educator's role in teaching literacy. Analysis is predominantly enabled …
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The Biologist and Area X as Posthuman Characters in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
… X. The analysis is based on Rosi Braidotti’s critical posthuman theory, with a focus on post-anthropocentrism and how posthumanism reshapes and expands our notion of humanity. Previous critics have focused on Annihilation as a piece of Anthropocene fiction, as well as how Annihilation bends …
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Philosophical enquiry and autism: story/ing/ied bags of unexpected human and more-than-human encounters in speech-language therapy and classroom spaces
… incapacitated epistemologically. Drawing on critical posthumanism, notably Karen Barad's Agential Realism, the study asks: how might the community of philosophical enquiry be put to work with children who present with significant challenges to enquiry-based learning? How can subjectivity for …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… works. Using three theoretical frameworks (critical posthumanism, new materialism and disability studies), I analyse how different literary modes grapple with concepts of human identity, and find that the material and conceptual boundaries between humans and their nonhuman environment of …
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Critical Post-Humanism as Problematic: Epistemological, Ethical, and Teleological Gestures for the Future of Post-Humanity
… research questions. First, are the principles of critical post-humanism consistent with its aims? Second, if the principles of critical post-humanism are inconsistent with its aims, what might constitute a veritable post-humanism? I begin by diagramming the stated goals of critical post-humanism, …