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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"human exceptionalism"”.
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
… 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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Margaret Cavendish on Inconceivability
… or occur in nature that are inconceivable to humans (i.e., inconceivability does not entail impossibility in nature). Put simply, Cavendish seemingly contradicts herself. This textual puzzle not only threatens to undermine Cavendish's philosophical method; it also calls her opposition to human …
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Of Cyborgs and Chimeras: Our Future With Emerging Technologies
… my discussion in existing scholarship on human enhancement and bioengineering (e.g., gene editing). Combining an overview of the history of cybernetics with explorations of consciousness theories and personhood (particularly in the context of brain-computer interfaces) allows me to build a …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
<p>Interest in the human/animal binary, in its ontological, ethical, and political aspects, has been on the rise together with contemporary philosophies of difference. It has often been argued that the dominant structures of representation, which appeal to absolute, finalizing, and transcendent …
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The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics
… formations and as material metaphors for human-environment interactions. These writers frequently invoke clouds to disrupt or “queer” depictions of human-environment relationships built on human domination of environmental beings. Clouds, in poetic writing, help writers (and readers) …
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Youth perceptions of nature: a case study of “Matric EnWild” nature immersion camp
… youth perception of nature, Two theories; Human Exceptionalism Paradigm and New Ecological Paradigm, can be used to better understand what youth attitudes and behaviours towards nature (that stems from their perception) means to eco-social development of a country. Theory was also used to …
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7Cs in the Anthropocene: Underpinnings, Processes, Practices of Moving Toward Creative Confidence in All We Humans Do in the Anthropocene
… around devising solutions within the confines of human-defined predicaments, often regarding human exceptionalism as the standard in solutions. In a quest for healthier, more productive methods for building creative confidence, to approach solutions to human created problems, I am respectfully …
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Ambient Poetics and Critical Posthumanism in Expanded Cinema
Posthumanism is a contested term, seen by some as leading towards a merging of human bodies and technology and by others, more critically, as a renewal of the ethical debate regarding human exceptionalism. Through a study of this critical approach and its potential relation to expanded cinema, a …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… notion that one’s privileged species status as a human being is under threat. In this project’s post-1900 American literary archive, species panic is often provoked by nonhuman eros, which provokes and threatens the fantasy of human exceptionalism. Theoretically, this project yokes animal studies …
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Animal-Woman journey(s): posthuman embodiment of zoomorphic folk tales
… remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. Liminal creatures capable of transformation, they embrace the wild and the civilized, animal and human, aquatic, aerial and terrestrial, natural and supernatural, archetypal and individual. They have the ability to move between worlds. …
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Gendered forces at work: tentacular encounters from the nursery
… are emphasised as always already more-than-human. This is specifically made explicit in this thesis by how postcolonial and Dalit “subjectivities” intra-act to generate new theoretical connections, tensions and contradictions. Theoretical heterogeneity is thus welcomed by putting feminist …
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Reconceptualising quality through pedagogical documentation in early years education in South Africa.
… classroom and in the relationships between the human and more-than-human other, how can pedagogical documentation offer an alternative? In particular, I investigate how, through a re-conceptualising of the concept of quality, pedagogical documentation can be used as a tool for the one hundred …
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
As human-caused environmental crises worsen, many young people are anxious but alienated from nature, hardly perceiving the ecosystems in which they participate. This thesis reveals that, vitally, contemporary YA fantasy novels tend to represent the senses as skills and thereby convey human …
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… remain largely resistant to attributing humanlike capacities to non-human animals, particularly great apes, for reasons that are not based on compelling empirical or theoretical grounds. Mental faculties such as reason, agency, and theory of mind are widely seen as differing in kind from …
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Dogs and Technology: Our Most Beloved Companions in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century America
… reflect one of the most basic and static human needs: the need for emotional connection. Furthermore, it is the unique combination of canine and digital elements that replace human-to-human social networks; networks that were once both literally and figuratively tightly drawn. In the …