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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"post-human"”.
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Walking with change: a first-person inquiry into the development of a post-human “frilufts”-life
… position this work it in the field of ecological post-humanism (Morton, 2018). Based on an ‘ethico-onto-epistem-ological’ integration, that assumes an intertwining of ethics, knowing and being (Barad, 2007), this research explores how a practice of walking while ‘ethical mattering’, and …
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Female Pleasure and Theories of Desire in Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, and Species Survival in the Post-Human and Science Fiction Imaginary
… reproduction, and the future survival of humanity imagined across the narrative structures of three 21st-century works of dystopian science fiction. By examining the genre's potential to address species survival specifically through female forms of desire identified as narrative …
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Corpses, Guns, Penises and Private Military and Security Corporations
… to matter through multifaceted enactments of human, formerly human (e.g. the dead), not exclusively human (e.g. penises), and non-human (e.g. guns) agencies. Simultaneously I perform a thorough accounting of the four processes – privatizing, militarizing, securing and commercializing– that …
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Becoming Through Conversation--I, You, We, Me, & Us: Conceptualizing Silence, Voice, Listening, and Love With Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy Who Do Not Speak
… over, or left out of communication. I used a post-modern and post-human qualitative research approach, plugging in theory, literature, song lyrics, and my personal experiences as an insider, as the mother of an adolescent with Cerebral Palsy who does not speak. I conducted conversations with …
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The Brain Scan as Ideograph
… Isabelle Stenger’s call for “risky” research. A post-human approach to the question of consciousness will allow us to reconsider current models of mental illness, justice, and accountability.</p>
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Rethinking Infants’ Relationship with the Outdoor Environment. Reconfiguring Our Understanding of Agentic Assemblage Intra-Action and Place.
… missing voices of both Infants and the-more-than-human-world. Through diffractive engagement this thesis stabilises binary thinking as it highlights the significance of recognition of the entangled nature of relationships between Infants and the-more-than-human-world. It argues for the necessity …
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Recruitment of monocytes to the pre-ovulatory ovary
… mice. Ovaries were collected at several times post human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) injection and analyzed by multi-color flow cytometry. Oviducts were collected from mice 20 hours after hCG administration and cumulous oocyte complexes were collected, counted and averaged to determine …
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Sublimating the Singularity of an Author(ity): Textual Publics, Textual Agency, and a Case Study of "Eikon Basilike" (1649-1660)
This dissertation utilizes a critical post-human theorization of textual agency to demonstrate how, within certain historical circumstances, autobiographical texts are capable of assuming surrogate authorial agency for their $ubject-authors through the expression of what Mari Ruti (2012) identifies …
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Get yourself connected: time, space, and character networks in David Mitchell's fiction
<p>This thesis explores the works of novelist David Mitchell, paying specific attention to the ways in which he uses his narratives to emulate and remediate global networks and contemporary fiction tropes. Though his novels are rarely set in the immediate present, Mitchell's creations are connected …
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Mapping the Politics of Vision: searching for a transformative gaze
… 2018). Their subjects are, respectively, the non-human gaze, the gendered gaze, and the dominant gaze. I demonstrate how these works are an attempt to deconstruct the inherent complicity between the gaze and political ideology and, as such, I outline the profile of an artistic practice that …
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Symbiosis and the Human Niche: Understanding Interdependence through Curriculum Studies, Ecopedagogy, and Technological Relationships
… how symbiotic relationships carve out the human niche in both the natural and artificial settings of our world. The human niche is naturally one of interdependence. However, as our society operates within the realm of the artificial, the human niche has been redirected to become one of …
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Com-post-humanism: implications for foundation phase environmental education in South Africa
… 1 in the Foundation Phase in South Africa), posthuman frameworks are mostly used without explicitly making the connection to issues of climate change and environmental education/sustainability education. Within the context of the Anthropocene where natural and human forces are visibly …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
… thesis traces the movement towards a paradoxical post-work society, where nothing is classed as pure work and yet everything is a form of labour. This is labour that is immaterial, affective, and most importantly, post-human. The contemporary labourer—an embodied osmosis between the human and the …
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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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Reading Bernstein and Critical Posthumanism Diffractively Through One Another: Intra-activity Pedagogy
… emerge (Barad, 2007)). With the help of this posthuman methodology, I read Bernstein’s sociological theory of education that is based on the important concept of boundary and a 'tree-like’ structuring of concepts the structure of trees diffractively through knowledge as conceptualised by …
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Recovering Requeche and Classifying Clasificadores: An Ethnography of Hygienic Enclosure and Montevideo’s Waste Commons
… plants, and informal yards. The thesis builds on post-human discard studies by recognising the agentive role of the non-human in consecrating materials not only as waste, but also as a ‘commons’. A central idea is that Montevideo’s waste stream is comparable to the historic English commons in …
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Tales of Re-Entry to Adult High School Programs: A Rhizomatic (De)(Re)Tangling
… upon openings created by thinking frames of post qualitative research. Rhizoanalysis in this dissertation raises questions, not conclusions Shelley Kokorudz TALES OF RE-ENTRY (Honan & Bright, 2016; Waterhouse & Arnott, 2016; Masny, 2017; Reinertsen, 2017; St. Pierre, 2019), about high school …
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The Quest for Life and Intelligence in Digital Puppets.
… serendipitous, real-time interaction. While human motion capture makes such real-time interaction and the corresponding spontaneity possible, it lacks the expressivity required for non-realistic characterisation. My practice-based research study proposes digital puppetry as a solution to this …