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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Posthuman Theory"”.
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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
… to cyborg humans and the theoretical concept of posthumanism, defined as a state that transcends the limitations of human existence with the help of cutting-edge technologies. The posthuman theory of Donna Haraway suggests that the cyborg has the potential to change humanity for the better, to …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion in America
<p>This dissertation offers a posthuman theory of the digital mediation of religion, divided between theoretical chapters on posthumanism, ritual, and new media before two case studies: one on death, one on play. First developing conceptual relationships between posthumanism and religious studies …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion In America
<p>This dissertation offers a posthuman theory of the digital mediation of religion, divided between theoretical chapters on posthumanism, ritual, and new media before two case studies: one on death, one on play. First developing conceptual relationships between posthumanism and religious studies …
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
… thesis reads the novels of Cormac McCarthy as posthuman southern literature to explain why fiction from the South after World War II could no longer convey a sense of place during postmodernity: that is, because the region's culture and economy were transitioning from predominantly humanistic …
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An Experimental Domain: Object-Oriented Ontology and Architecture
… to explore a new domain of discussion regarding Posthuman theory, Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Object-Oriented Ontology. The response within academia to these relatively new areas can be seen in architectural school pedagogy, studio topics, syllabi, scholarly works, and projects …
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Co-Becomings in Creative Music Workshop Practices
… relationality and process. Drawing on posthuman theory, co-becomings are seen to cut across the nature-culture divide, incorporating both human and other-than-human dimensions including sound, technology and affect. The concept of co-becoming is put into dialogue with workshop practice …
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The Biologist and Area X as Posthuman Characters in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
In this thesis I examine the posthuman elements evident in Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation (2014). I explore the different techniques VanderMeer uses to blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman both in the main character, the biologist, as well as the setting of the novel, Area X. The …