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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Ex Machina"”.
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Ludus ex machina : toward computational play
… the envelope in the quest for novel meaning and experience. Designers can't always rely upon existing models to judge their work. Operating like this requires a curious and open mind, a willingness to eschew reward and occasionally break the rules, and a desire to explore for the sake of …
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Deus ex Machina: Legal Fictions in Private Law
This PhD dissertation is about legal fictions in private law. A legal fiction, broadly, is a false assumption knowingly relied upon by the courts. The main aim of the dissertation is to formulate a test for which fictions should be accepted and which rejected. Subsidiary aims include a better …
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PRAESENTIA EX MACHINA: The Millennial Technoculture, Liveness and Theatre
This work examines the modern technoculture, its component parts and the changing role of theatre in Anglo-American culture. Our contemporary society is marked by the ubiquity of digital technologies and has become reliant on their commodities. The emerging Millennial Generation has matured with …
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PRAESENTIA EX MACHINA: The Millennial Technoculture, Liveness and Theatre
This work examines the modern technoculture, its component parts and the changing role of theatre in Anglo-American culture. Our contemporary society is marked by the ubiquity of digital technologies and has become reliant on their commodities. The emerging Millennial Generation has matured with …
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Terra ex machina : land building and the breach of property regimes
… thesis frames land building as a "geo-hack": it exploits a false premise of planning and property regimes - that land is fixed in place and quantity - and thereby circumvents both. This work situates offshore land building on the Malay Peninsula within its history of land alienation, the practice …
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Corpus ex machina : a ciborguização da enfermeira no contexto da terapia intensiva
… ciborgue – uma idéia produtiva que possibilita explorar a ciborguização da cultura contemporânea e suas implicações para a enfermagem em terapia intensiva. Utilizo a abordagem metodológica da análise cultural tal como esta vem sendo desenvolvida pelos Estudos Culturais que se aproximam do …
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Paradoxum Ex Machina: Exploring the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies on the Strategies and Actions of Entrepreneurial Ventures
… landscape. Accordingly, this dissertation explores the dual nature of AI and GenAI as both enablers and disruptors in entrepreneurship, offering a theoretical and empirical investigation into their transformative effects across three core entrepreneurial domains: legitimacy and resource …
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Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
… robot, or gynoid, in three popular sci-fi texts: The Stepford Wives (1975), Ex Machina (2013), and Westworld (2017). Centralizing a critical feminist rhetorical approach, this thesis outlines the symbolic meaning of gynoids as representing cultural anxieties about women and technology …
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Enabling a Speculative EcoGothic? Blood Moss, an Original Novella and a Critical Reflection
… of her sickly friend. The cult, Deus Ex Machina, is obsessed with creating a being envisaged as an expression of ideal humanity, unlimited by human imperfections and irrationalities. This narrative is set in relation to excerpts from the personal notebooks of Prof. Ngceni, a scientist …
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Power On: The ‘Digital Other’ and Emergent Personhood in American Sci-Fi
… the new subject in its recently represented contexts. The project ultimately argues that the new subject is, in these contexts, a “digital other,” existing because of exploitation and entrenched in histories of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism. I aim to track the ruptures and …
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Vivaria
Vivaria explores musical depictions of animalistic ecosystems, the advent of artificial intelligence, and its impact on the natural world and humanity. The rhythmic and gestural freedom in natural ecosystems has always fascinated me and remains a throughline in my art. Vivaria comments on the …
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Manufacturing the Marvellous: Technology and Divine Presence in Ancient Greek Religion
… Greek world. The dissertation seeks both to expand the existing vocabulary of visual modes of ancient epiphany, and to contribute to the cultural history of the unique category of ancient ‘enchantment’ technologies. A broad chronological scope not only allows for an adequate presentation of …
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Misplaced Methodologies: The Legal Hermeneutics of Muḥammad b. al Ḥasan al-Shaybānῑ (d.189/804)
… as an ode to the ‘master architect,’ the ‘deus ex machina’ who emerged victorious at the end of a centuries long battle, bringing ‘an unbridled law down to the knees of revelation.’ But what exactly was this “unbridled law?” The pre-Shāfian legal culture has largely been considered rudimentary …