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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"New materialism"”.
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… (and the gender binary) and using posthuman new materialism (agential realism) as a theoretical framework this study engages with the constitution of myriad binaries, including the male/female, man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual, sex/gender, human/nonhuman and mind/body binaries. Through a …
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Encountering Agency with Decolonial Thought, New Materialism, and The Vegetarian
… theoretical frameworks -- decolonial thought and new materialism – with the South Korean novella The Vegetarian. I suggest that the novella, especially through its protagonist, performs a form of agency which calls for a reading that hinges not on the pursuit of definitive analysis but on the …
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An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism
… slow? I explore these questions by appealing to New materialist philosophy associated with Karen Barad (2007), which is a theoretical framework in which entities are not seen as being determined before the interactions: their qualities, capacities, and boundaries emerge from the interplay with …
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You Matter To Me; Mattering, Materialising and Unmattering.
New materialism is at the forefront of modern artistic movements, the art of being, the art of matter-ing. This essay will explore what it means to matter, to be matter, and how relationships between the self and the rest of the world are forged. There is space for exploration of what it means to …
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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous
… for social constructivism, and too textual for new materialism, Cixouss singular approach to materiality and immanence have remained decidedly overlooked. (Re)reading Cixous from within the literature of new materialism and environmental (post)humanities, we discover an onto/eco-poethics of …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… moving towards mycelial convergence. I turn to new materialism, particularly theory built by Mel Y. Chen and Eva Hayward, in order to theorize a trans ecology that is agential and capacious, rather than merely existing in passive relation to the human. In the “Trans Ecologies” section of the …
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Feral objects and acts of domestic piracy: sculpture, secular magic, and strategies of feminist disruption
… encounter and ask, what might a feminist new materialism look like when the focus is on domestic objects, and how can we draw meaning from these objects when they perform as sculpture? I propose a category of material culture I call ‘feral objects’, the overlooked and undervalued …
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Ballads for Remembering
… and a theoretical framework of New Materialism and Post-Humanism (“K(now)n Materialism”), this feminist response to the climate crisis manifests an otherwise-possible that is already right-here, taking cues from the emergent playful worlds of childhood studies and music, with …
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Elephant and Wild Rice: Bringing Rhetorics of Materiality into Judicial Spaces
Rhetorics of new materialism have articulated an awareness that humans are not alone or centered in their interests and behaviors, and that possession of this worldview makes us accountable to nonhuman entities and things. Past scholarship on new materialism has focused on the necessity and …
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Assembling a Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Campus Landscape Analysis of a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… (HSI) designation for more than a decade. Using new materialism and assemblage theory to examine the materiality of campus landscapes and the entanglement of the HSI designation will demonstrate how campus landscapes are open and complex systems with various lines of flight and are constantly …
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We have lost one another
… Art and in dialogue with the philosophies of New Materialism and Object-oriented Ontology. As a current resident of District Six, I collaborate with human and non-human components of the ruptured District Six ecosystem to facilitate a site-specific installation that recognises people and land …
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Black Quarterback, White Masks: A Critical Analysis of the NFL Anthem Protests
… Lee Siegel, and Colin Fleming, and their <em>New York Times</em> opinion pieces on Kaepernick from 2016-17, this study argues that the common discourses surrounding the protest exist within the strategic rhetoric of whiteness (Nakayama and Krizek, 1995). The analysis of these texts and of …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
… of the Anthropocene or the naturalism of New Materialism — Fossil Capitalist Realism explores the past 50 years’ twin realities of ever-heightening energy consumption and free market ideology as a question of narrative form, thinking beyond the defeating realism of energy politics …
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The Entanglement of Anzaldúan Materiality as Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, and Interrelatedness
… philosophies that further extends monism into new terrain, including 'new materialism.' While monism is a strand of this project, the core features of this project are materiality and bodies; these two concepts create the particular entanglement and central thrust of this project, which is …
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A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography
… I put the feminist trajectories in posthumanism, new materialism, and ecocriticism in dialogue with contemporary choreography as a critical form of articulation and speculation by bodies in space and time. With this framework, I survey the performances dating between 1975-2020 by five women …
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CEDAR: Collective Environmental Data Sensing using AR
… theoretical frameworks of pragmatist aesthetics, new materialism, and technoecology, which together provide the critical lens to reconceptualize data as an expressive, relational medium embedded within everyday urban and natural environments. The project develops and tests sensor-driven AR …
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Multispecies Syntopia: Collaborative Survival in the Nuclear Anthropocene
… eco-centric way of world-making. It draws upon new materialism and post-humanism to reflect on cross-species communication between human and non-human agents. In conclusion, it proposes the concept of “multispecies syntopia”—a combination of “syn,” which means “together”, and “topia,” which …
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Interpretation at the Controller's Edge: The Role of Graphical User Interfaces in Virtual Archaeology
… challenges to a strict interpretation of the New Materialism, and its call for "unmediated" interaction with archaeological things. On the contrary, design oriented thinking encourages us to balance human factors (i.e., the user experience) with the representations of things that constitute …
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Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
… in particular Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and New Materialism. This theoretical discourse offers the platform for dealing with the fields of assemblages, territories, resonance, noise, in-between, interference, interaction, and agency through the writings of, among others, Deleuze and Guattari, …
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Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181
… are a rapidly growing and highly innovative new area of international standards development. They propose tools, techniques and guidelines for the governance of smart and sustainable cities. In this thesis, I survey the standards literature, develop a methodology for their study, and analyse …
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