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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Machinic"”.
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Urban Green Assemblage: A Machinic-MLG Approach to Green Cities
As the climate crisis escalates, increasing emphasis is placed upon urban solutions, through urban futures and sociotechnical imaginaries such as the green city agenda. The thesis critically examines the green city agenda in its presumptive context of a multi-level governance often characterised by …
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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture
… the boundary between body and machine, "The Body Machinic" historicizes the emergence of the categories of "human" and "mechanical" labor. Beginning with nineteenth-century debates about the mechanized labor process, these categories became defined in opposition to each other, providing the …
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The Co-Construction of Properties in a Machinic-Complex: A study of the Car and Dunlop Pneumatic Tyres 1900-1925
… class mobility through what Urry has called the 'machinic-complex' of the car. The performative nature of the user-technology relationship is theorised by engaging with certain aspects of Actor-Network theory (ANT), in particular, Akrich's notion of 'reciprocal or mutual adjustment', which is …
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Technology and social space beyond the modern episteme
… and Henri Lefebvre. It posits an a-modern, machinic approach to technology and the social that focusses on the distribution of agency rather than the modern preoccupation with identity and the Kantian separation of time and space.
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Moving Rhizomatically: Deleuze's Child in 21st Century American Literature and Film
… by which it advances a notion of a machinic identity that moves continuously, contingently, and waywardly along less vertical, less excruciating and more horizontal, life-affirmative trails. To this end, my thesis proposes a “rhizomatic semiosis” as extrapolated from the philosophy …
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Territorial Violence and Design, 1950-2010: A Human-Computer Study of Personal Space and Chatbot Interaction
… but between humans and technology because machinic agencies transfer, relocate, enact and reenact territorially. Literatures of territoriality, violence and affect are uniquely brought together, with chatbots as the research object to argue that their ongoing development as artificial …
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The Ephemerality of the Living and the Persistence of the Inanimate
… <p>I combine imagery and material sourced from machinic, bodily, living, dead, non-human animal and human domains and blend them into a state of atemporal ambiguity. Salvaged artifacts originating from multiple generations function as temporary armatures for my cast paper sculptures. I choose …
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Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the (Re)Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art
… worldbuilding, queer identity exploration, machinic collaboration, and platform resistance—through which participants achieved therapeutic benefit, creative empowerment, and expanded senses of self and possibility. Against reductive critiques that dismiss AI art as theft, skill-avoidance, or …
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Intensive War : Not the Beginning, Not the Middle, Not the End.
… to rethink war in inhuman, that is to say, in machinic terms.
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Translating the intimate: digital renderings of bio-matter into material forms through artistic research.
… intimate relationship between my blood and the machinic in a practice-led process of fabrication, this PhD enquiry considers how the materiality of my body is translated, dispersed amongst the non-representational “froth of code”; becoming techno-corporeal abstractions through techno-scientific …
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Populism as resonance machine: Affect, the Sweden Democrats, and the 2018 Swedish General Election
… analytical value of understanding populism as machinic is shown through the discussion of three central themes. First, I shed light on the feelings, ideas, and deep stories that moved voters. Specifically, I indicate the nuances of distrust and nostalgia and show the importance of events in …
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The Politics of Conspiracy Theory and Control: Cybernetic Governmentality and the Scripted Political
… 'choice' and by way of its imbrication into machinic systems, conceptualizes the subject as a consumer and processor of information. I put forth the notion of the scripted political to analyze a key tension within contemporary U.S. politics, as politics is becoming increasingly uncertain yet …
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
… Ethics. Here, I discuss concepts on machinic moral agency in digital systems. As I pass from the social robot as a humanoid pseudo-agent towards moralised algorithmic structures, I lay out wider conflicts in morality research streams. Specifically, I address their epistemological …
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The architectural details of Alvaro Siza : a chorology
… operative modes that compose the abstract machinic-architectural assemblages of Alvaro Siza. As a beginning to understanding the complex assemblages of Siza, this thesis will specifically examine architectural details, their interrelationships, and affiliations to materials and techniques …
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Systems of Becoming: Mediating Dialogue between Nature and Design
… in which practices of becoming in parallel with machinic adjustments enable adaptation that occurs in a reciprocal manner between biological systems and mechanical apparatuses. Building on my previous work with silkworms, honey bees and ants, I show how the discipline of Design can and should …
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The Greater Sage-grouse in Wyoming: A Technonatural Study
… environmental construction as generating biotic-machinic entanglements termed technonature. I present the formation and operation of the Wyoming Conservation Exchange as a case study of technonatural territorialization connected to global trona and hydrocarbon commodity flows. The theoretical …
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Oh, What a Novelty! The Paradoxical Pop-Up Book
… and resistant to – but often reliant upon – machinic and digital technologies. I conclude by discussing how these inherent tensions, and other ‘pop-up paradoxes’, can be exploited and amplified by creatives, within any given medium, to utilise the remediated pop-up book as a self-reflexive …