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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"posthuman"”.
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Posthuman: The Great Beyond
<p>Scripts for a six-part comic book mini series.</p>
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COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
… Sookie Stackhouse novels illustrate clearly the posthuman self in its connection beyond itself to other vampires, humans, and non-humans. Learning to co-exist becomes problematic in Harris’ series, where we encounter a “new” representation of vampire. These vampires have come out of the coffin, …
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A posthuman analysis of wildlife security
… of the South African poaching crisis from a posthuman perspective. At the core of the study is the development of the wildlife security assemblage, which closely analyses the relationship between security and wildlife conservation in the region and questions the dominant anthropocentrism that …
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Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman
In her book How We Became Posthuman (1999), Katherine Hayles analysed the process through which the conception of the liberal humanist subject led the way to the posthuman subject, a subject who lives in complete entwinement with the digital. This process, however, was not innocuous: it made the …
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Finding the ‘human’ in the ‘posthuman’: The representation of the technologically enhanced posthuman in Young Adult fiction
… it means to be human to be considered through posthuman thought. I see the reality of technology’s effect on human lives giving rise to the figure of the posthuman, in which aspects of the human are replaced or enhanced by technology. Through the posthuman subject, I propose the idea of a …
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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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Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming
… collage as a tool to address gender in a posthuman framework and was designed to examine one question: How can collage contribute to a posthuman understanding of gender? This investigation strives to get beyond the pitfalls of binary gender identification prevalent within humanistic …
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Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard
… issues concerning the contemporary discourse of posthumanism. His texts explore the escalating economic, social, and ecological crises converging within the material conditions of human urbanization and late capitalism. Nearly all of Ballard’s novels are as much about locations undergoing a …
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Posthuman Leadership and the Role of Computational Objects
… practice. Second, the study proposes a novel posthuman perspective that attempts to address a historic privileging of the human, positing a disjunction of responsibility from authority. And third, it theorises leadership as a processual phenomenon produced through citationality in …
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A posthuman curriculum: subjectivity at the crossroads of time
… to be human, the shift from the human era to the posthuman era and the implications of that shift on subjectivity, and the purpose of undergraduate education in a posthuman era. The current shift towards a posthuman worldview is a radical break from the modern and postmodern 20th century, when …
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… anthropocentrism toward what I call “posthuman ecology.” This work explores shared scientific, literary, and philosophical sources for Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Mary and Percy Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson. I connect aesthetic innovation to ethics to ask more …
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Rehearsing New Opera: An Ethnographic Lens on Becoming Posthuman
… congenital bodies and their processes rehearse posthuman existence within anthropocentric operatic structures. Taking on a posthumanist lens as a tool to navigate through rehearsal practices, I map the sonic agencies of new opera at the intersection of opera studies, critical posthumanism and …
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Animal-Woman journey(s): posthuman embodiment of zoomorphic folk tales
Diverse folktales passed down across the generations in different languages tell of Seal Women, Selkies, Mermaids, Dove Girls, She-Wolves, Swan Women: all zoomorphic or semi-zoomorphic beings able to remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. Liminal creatures capable of …
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Posthuman Literacy Practices in a Reggio-inspired South African school
Through a posthuman approach to literacy education, I explore the Reggio Emilia pedagogy adopted by an independent South African primary school. Unlike the current emphasis in literacy pedagogy on language, standardised and individualised testing and universal curriculum approaches, Reggio Emilia …
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The Craft of Violence: A Posthuman Patchwork of Technological Interrelations
Most often, we encounter our first definitions of violence, abuse, and harm when we enter the work force, through some form of training or maybe posters. All of these definitions are created by other humans. Most of these definitions are created by lawyers or specialists. Most people take these …
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Japanese Women's Science Fiction: Posthuman Bodies and the Representation of Gender
… often translated as comics) artists have used posthumans, cyborgs, and other hybrid creatures to question contemporary gender roles and identities. Traditionally, science fiction has been seen as a male domain. But by incorporating science fiction themes into manga and fiction intended for a …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… examines the conceptual emergence of posthumanism and probes the viability of posthumanist redefinitions of the human (self). Motivated by a sense of the simultaneous necessity and danger of the desire to revise our notion of the human in light of the contemporary ecological crisis, it …
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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 …
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