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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Cyborgs"”.
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Of Cyborgs and Chimeras: Our Future With Emerging Technologies
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary exploration of the sociological, ethical, and philosophical implications of emerging technologies, with a special focus on biomedical engineering, more specifically neuro-interventions. I explore various technologies from algorithms, AI, and …
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Architecture for Cyborgs : laptops and spatial use at MIT
Individuals have a particular set of tasks they need to accomplish or what might be called a "life pattern." These tasks must be accomplished within a particular set of places or "life spaces." What is the role of the laptop in defining these life spaces and patterns and how does it either enable …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
… with Donna Haraway’s essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s,” and expanding to recent explorations of the cyborg from women of color theorists like Joy James and Jasbir Puar, I situate Black feminist cyborgs in the current field of feminist …
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Artificial Identity: Representations of Robots and Cyborgs in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction Films
… cinema through the representations of robots and cyborgs. Despite the capacity for transhumanist practice and the creation of artificially intelligent automata that these developments have made possible, blurring the line between organic human and mechanical robots, it remains common for no …
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Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features
… technological construction of human being (e.g., cyborgs) and sociality in the America Online cyberscape. A two-tiered critical-hermeneutic method enables exploration of the broad rationalizing historical narrative and the localized play of virtual discursive practices impacting human meaning …
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Cyborgs for Environmental Justice: East Asian American Stories from the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
… paper argues that East Asian Americans act as “Cyborgs”—both as their ascribed racializations under systems of White Supremacy and as posited in Donna Haraway’s influential <em>Cyborg Manifesto</em> — to use the technologies conceptualized in Chela Sandoval’s <em>Methodology of the …
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Are You There, God? It's I, Robot: Examining the Humanity of Androids and Cyborgs Through Young Adult Fiction
Technological and biological research is advancing rapidly, and topics previously relegated to science fiction are becoming a reality. Science-fiction novels may in fact be an adolescent's first exposure to topics such as bio-enhancement or artificial intelligence (AI), among others. These novels …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
… 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 practical limits of the …
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Cyborgs, Wolves, and Aliens, Oh My: Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Diversity in YA Fairy Tale Retellings
The following study is interested in questions of diversity and inclusiveness in Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles, a tetralogy of best-selling young adult fairy tale revisions comprised of Cinder (2012), Scarlet (2013), Cress (2014), and Winter (2015). Scholars have expended significant energy …
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From Prometheus to Pistorius: a Genealogy of Physical Ability
… + Monstrosities)ModernWar + (Flagged Bodies + Cyborgs)PostmodernWar = dis-AbilityCyborged
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… fiction that depict artificial intelligence, cyborgs, and body swapping to determine the common critiques made. The source of the troubling aspects of these imagined futures doesn’t derive strictly from the presence of advanced, posthumanist technologies. Instead, the authors shine a light on …
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Enchufad@s : representations of the internet and new technologies in queer Latin American literature
… performativity, Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs", Henry Jenkins' theory of convergence culture, and a heavy-handed dash of diva studies, this dissertation explores how Internet spaces as represented in the novels and poems serve to enhance as well as hinder human connection, while also …
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Japanese Women's Science Fiction: Posthuman Bodies and the Representation of Gender
… as comics) artists have used posthumans, cyborgs, and other hybrid creatures to question contemporary gender roles and identities. Traditionally, science fiction has been seen as a male domain. But by incorporating science fiction themes into manga and fiction intended for a female …
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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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Body of glass: cybernetic bodies and the mirrored self
… as a ‘body of glass.’ It demonstrates how cyborgs are not only associated with objects like the mirror, but also how that figure is tied to visual motifs such as the double or doppelganger. Accordingly, the theories of Jacques Lacan are employed to elucidate the issues that arise when one …
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A critical postmodern response to multiculturalism in popular culture
… second case turns to the postmodern bodies of cyborgs and humanoid robots in the science fiction film I, Robot (2004) as a racial metaphor at the crossroads of whiteness, inhumanity, and redemption. The final case discusses the politics of irony in relation to ethnolinguistic identity and …
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
This thesis traces the inter-relation between human/machine hybrid figures, imagination and “human” subjectivity through the early science fiction of H. G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, E. M. Forster's “The Machine Stops” and Karel Čapek's R.U.R.. It demonstrates how the “human” operates in a state …
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String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment
Curriculum Theory affords us the opportunity to examine education from a multitude of directions. This work takes advantage of that opportunity to explore the relationships between science, nature, and curriculum using string theory and our ideas about the environment as a backdrop. Both the energy …
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A longitudinal sentiment analysis of the #FeesMustFall campaign on Twitter
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Information and Communications Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.