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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Cyborg"”.
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CYBORG GENESIS
… terms of our very existence makes us inherently cyborg in nature. With the increase in digital technologies in every aspect of day –to-day existence from your morning coffee to higher education, we have become increasingly dependent on our cyborg identities. This thesis, then, serves as a project …
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Ultrasonic cyborg hearing
… with a particular focus on do-it-yourself cyborgs are also provided. Research on the state of the art is presented for both digital signal processing techniques for pitch shifting and ultrasonic hearing devices. Several natural and technical ultrasound sources are listed as well. …
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The grain of the voice of the cyborg
This report is an attempt to use the vocalic body, an imaginative construction of the body of origin for an acousmatic voice, as a tool for examining vocal timbre in conjunction with electronic music and external vocal technologies. By recounting historical reactions to electronic vocal …
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Cyborg botany : augmented plants as sensors, displays and actuators
Plants are photosynthetic eukaryotes with a billion years of evolutionary history. While primarily sessile, they have developed distinctive abilities to adapt to the environment. They are self-powered, self-fabricating, self-regenerating and active signal networks. They carry highly advanced …
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Cyborg Butterflies, Liminal Medicine: Thyroid Hormone Treatment, 1890-1970
In this thesis, I develop a history of thyroid hormone treatment (THT) that centers on the bodies of animals and women between 1890 and 1970. This history contextualizes the current debate between two forms of THT, desiccated and synthetic. Drawing on the discourses present in biomedical journals, …
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The Cyborg Subject: Parallax Realities, Functions of Consciousness and the Void of Subjectivity
… investigation will position the subject as a cyborg: a series of relations within consciousness that defines the reality and psychological construction of the subject across and through physical and digital perspectives. The functions of consciousness are set out as Existence, Meaning, …
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Let's talk about sext : gendered millennial perceptions of sexting in a cyborg society
In a cyborg society where people exist both organically and via technology, sexual expression and interaction via technology has become 'normal'. The controversy surrounding sexting stems from contemporary literature and media portraying it as coercive, harmful and unacceptable, with particular …
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Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments
<p>This dissertation will broaden the purview of recent scholarship pertaining to socially just writing assessments by making connections among assemblage theory and materialism, studies of ecological and anti-racist assessments, and studies of writing center work, to ground theoretical …
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Standing at the End of a Road: Death and the Construction of Cyborg Relationships
"Although my work on these online sites of illness, death, and mourning has often been emotionally difficult, I believe these types of web spaces are particularly valuable because they encourage us to consider the real-world context of online interactions. Studies of online communities have …
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Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing
… capabilities. This dissertation introduces “Cyborg Psychology,” an interdisciplinary, human-centered approach to understanding how AI systems influence human psychological processes. Cyborg Psychology also emphasizes applying these insights to design and develop AI systems that support human …
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Making Meanings of the Body: What Cyborg Narratives Reveal About Prosthetic Limb Adoption and Use
… interviews to examine participants’ cyborg narratives, the stories of how their use of these intimate technologies is integrated into their narratives of self. I ask two questions: RQ1) How do people who use prosthetic limbs relate to those objects as assistive technologies that have …
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Body of glass: cybernetic bodies and the mirrored self
This thesis examines the ontology of the cyborg body and the politics inherent to cultural manifestations of that image, and focuses on the links between glass and human-machine integration, while tracing the dangerous political affinities that emerge when such links are exposed. In the first …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
… this project advances speculative fiction and cyborg theory as dynamic tools which we must utilize to build the future of feminist studies, Black studies, and digital political organizing. Beginning with Donna Haraway’s essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
… a borderless and especially, genderless, cyborg subjectivity. "Cyborgs" and "serials" are figures of social and fictional "reality," that, together, reflect the normalizing, hierarchical, and psychologically traumatic aspects of operational Harawayan cyborgology. Chapter 1 explores the …
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Cyborg Bodies, Human Minds: Robert Venditti's The Surrogates, Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita and the Great Myth of Posthumanism
… of humans altered and improved through advanced cyborg technology—technology that amalgamates animal and machine—has long been of interest in science fiction, gaining popularity in most Western countries and Japan. This paper examines two graphic novel series, Robert Venditti’s The Surrogates and …
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Kiborgas kaip G. Agamben‘o „Antropologinės mašinos“ griovėjas /
Cyborg as a Destroyer of G. Agamben’s „Anthropological Machine“ Giorgio Agamben in his lesser known work The Open: Man and Animal diagnoses that history of politics, philosophy and science is a part of what he calls “Anthropological machine”, through which man is created and confronted with an …
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