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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"anthropocentric"”.
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Responsible Design: Design Methods for Anthropocentric Sustainable Futures
… may have equal opportunity in perpetuity is an anthropocentric pursuit. It requires intergenerational equity in everything we do, including how we design the products, systems, and companies we build and use. Responsible Design is a new methodology that helps provide the structure designers need …
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Abstract realism : Non-anthropocentric strategies for constructing non-relational artworks.
… research methodology based upon a series of 'non-anthropocentric strategies' (following Fredric Jameson) for constructing, staging and encountering artworks as 'non-relational' (following Francois Laruelle) 'totalities' (following Carl Einstein) within the cultural-economic-socio-political reality …
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Assessment of anthropocentric representations of color patterns for biological relevance
… led some to propose that human vision and the anthropocentric expressions of coloration based on our vision can never be used to detect variation in animal coloration. Yet this assertion is at odds with a long history of studying animal coloration in ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral …
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Law as Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_461876124.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
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A Relational Ecology of Photographic Practices: Towards a Non-anthropocentric Approach to Photography
This thesis argues that as photography’s technological basis has become more complex and increasingly detached from human vision, a thicker account of photographic practice that moves away from humanist discourse and single authorship can assist in demonstrating a continuity between film and new …
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Gazing at Other Animals: A Deconstruction of the Anthropocentric Gaze in the Representation of Apex Predators
… ‘other’, constructed and produced as a result of anthropocentric ideas. This research analyses apex predator representations within the context of anthropocentrism, a perspective that places the human at the centre of experience and knowledge. Anthropocentrism is a concept integrally linked to the …
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Puppets between human, animal and machine: towards the modes of movement contesting the anthropocentric view of life in animation
… Examining how these depictions demonstrate anthropocentric views of puppets, I consider religio-philosophical, scientific and aesthetic discourses on puppets and human/animal simulacra. Further, I explore a selection of puppet-as-puppet figures as alternatives to these anthropocentric …
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Linkages between ecocentric values and action in expert discourse: the case of genetically modified food in the UK
… can be manifest in two broad categories, namely anthropocentric and ecocentric. The former regards nature as of value only insofar as it is useful to humanity, whereas the latter assigns intrinsic value to natural entities. Industrial society can be characterised as being dominated by …
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
… - provides powerful resources for dismantling anthropocentric or human-exceptionalist philosophical commitments, as well as a positive basis for deveiopi.ng a genuinely non-anthropocentric or anti-speciesist understanding of moral and political community (one that would be a better alternative …
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The material in salvific discourse : a study of two Christian perspectives.
… worldview which promotes an immanent and anthropocentric view of the material realm. This immanent and anthropocentric vision, it is claimed, cannot adequately lead to improved material well being but only to greed and corruption because the material realm is viewed as the highest good or …
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Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn
… extend, expand, and challenge the conventionally anthropocentric framing of cultural adjustment. I examine cultural adjustment through an ecocultural lens, reconceptualizing the process as ecocultural adjustment, which combines both cultural (human-centered) factors with environmental (both …
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Value theory in environmental ethics and economics
… ought to be based on the intrinsic and/or non-anthropocentric value of nature, without consensus on a clear definition of those terms and without a clear analysis of the implications of adopting such an ethic. The purpose of this thesis is to first make sense of those different definitions and …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… that most arise from a reliance on heavily anthropocentric concepts such as reason, sentience, and rights. Second, it investigates the possibility of ontology and ethics beyond anthropocentrism, in which relationships between beings are based on neither identity nor difference alone, but …
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The mind-game film in the age of the anthropocene : at the limits of productive pathologies
… the scale, complexity, and contradictions of the anthropocentric era, with its non-human temporalities and ecological catastrophes, render classical mimetic modes of representation inadequate. In contrast, the mind-game narrative – a narrative mode that suspends causal logic and refuses imaginary …
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Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
… ecocriticism should adopt a more ecocentric or anthropocentric perspective of the environment. The former views humanity as part of a worldwide community and views nature as valuable in its own right. The latter judges nature’s value in respect to its use to humanity. This essay presents the two …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
… the potential to resist and undermine history’s anthropocentric norm. My thesis examines four contemporary young adult historical fantasy trilogies that reimagine key turning points in history such as industrialisation, the American frontier, European imperialism, and World War I. They share the …
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All Creatures Great and Small: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Function of Animals in Biblical Texts
… Proof texts can be used to justify either an anthropocentric or ecocentric perspective on animals, which is why this dissertation seeks to bring quantifiable data of how animals function in the biblical texts, in order to bring nuance to the complex issue of a biblical perspective on animals. …
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Exploding anthropocentrism: understanding optical democracy in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… as described by Holloway, to abolish the idea of anthropocentric order as it applies to the subject being examined. By abolishing this false order, he simultaneously dissociates his treatment of the subject from this illusory order and reveals the presence of a phenomenal reality that is “before …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
… history, which itself rests on hierarchical, anthropocentric metaphysics. To combat the negative effects of Eurocentrism, we must establish alternatives to the metaphysics it rests on and the historical attitudes that it constructs and maintains. The dissertation is divided into three main …
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BALANCING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, INNOVATION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT LAW: THE CASE OF GENERATIVE AI MODELS
… copyright framework, which is built around the anthropocentric standard of the “author’s own intellectual creation.” Under this framework, autonomously generated outputs are ineligible for protection as copyright requires a human creator capable of making ‘free and creative choices. The legal …
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