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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"posthumanism"”.
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Another World Entire: the Posthumanism of Cormac Mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy's novels are thought experiments in what it might mean to write posthuman works of fiction. In a close reading of three of his novels, Child of God, The Crossing, and The Road , this project reveals how McCarthy's stories paradoxically unravel the dangerous human desire to make of …
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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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Posthumanism in Literature: Redefining Selfhood, Temporality, and Reality/ies through Fiction
<p>While fictional novels are often seen as a way to escape reality, their relation <em>to </em>reality and the ways in which they distort or reinforce our understandings <em>of</em> reality can provide significant insights into our cultural values and beliefs. Using posthumanist theory, I examine …
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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism
Genetic technologies are now sufficiently advanced to alter the human genome. Indeed, gene editing is already practiced in some countries for medical purposes. However, future directions for the use of genetic technologies are unclear. Scholars of the “posthuman” future tend to speculate that …
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… speculation on the figure abolitionist≠posthumanism. Working para-critically to consider textures, postulations and challenges posed by decolonial thought, Indigenous critical theories, Black studies, critical race feminisms, non-philosophy and theories on digitality, i pose …
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Reading Bernstein and Critical Posthumanism Diffractively Through One Another: Intra-activity Pedagogy
… and pedagogy by reading Bernstein and critical posthumanism diffractively? How does critical posthumanism problematise knowledge and pedagogy as theorised by Bernstein? What is a posthuman pedagogy? In what way can each theory contribute to solving the inequalities of education today? Bernstein, …
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Becoming Deaf in the Posthuman Era: Posthumanism, Arts-Based Research and Deaf Education
In this dissertation, I explore posthumanism as a possible paradigm shift for deaf education which is presently mired in binarized thinking concerning language choices. The ontologies, epistemologies, research methodologies and pedagogy associated with posthumanism propose a radical shift in …
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
… humanism (read: human exceptionalism) and toward posthumanism (read: non-, anti-, or after human exceptionalism).</p>
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… as representatives of early humanism and posthumanism, respectively. The study is divided into four chronologically ordered parts. In part I, four teratological traditions of philosophical import are discerned in antiquity: the naturalist, the humanist, the metaphysical, and the …
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The Kleinian Subject in the Anthropocene: Posthumanism, Narration of Crisis, and the Ethics of Reparative Care
This dissertation utilizes psychoanalytic theory to understand the anxieties that construct narrations of and demand intervention into the Anthropocene, a period marked by crises associated with human impact. I specifically bring Melanie Klein's theory of object relations to this contemporary …
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The past as a constituent of the present: Social waters and posthumanism at Cara Blanca, Belize
… dissertation examines, through a framework of posthumanism, the ways in which the shifting climate has impacted the context of Cara Blanca throughout millennia. I focus on the role of water in maintaining an integrated landscape through these climate shifts and show that water was the …
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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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(Re)configuring socially just pedagogies with posthumanism and decoloniality: Experimenting with processual learning in the Architectural Technology extended curriculum programme in the Western Cape, South Africa
… opportunities. The research is framed within posthumanism and decoloniality, aiming to investigate how these theoretical underpinnings can contribute to socially just pedagogies in architectural education. The focus is on the Architectural Technology - Extended Curriculum Programme offered at …
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The Biologist and Area X as Posthuman Characters in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
… with a focus on post-anthropocentrism and how posthumanism reshapes and expands our notion of humanity. Previous critics have focused on Annihilation as a piece of Anthropocene fiction, as well as how Annihilation bends the formal boundaries of a narrative, which is a characteristic of the …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion in America
… 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 and methodological connections between new media and ritual theories, it …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion In America
… 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 and methodological connections between new media and ritual theories, it …
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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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Bio/Techno/Homo: a critical history of the human in Anglo-American science fiction
… culture. These critics form part of the field of posthumanism, a branch of critical studies which has been centrally concerned with unearthing, investigating, and challenging what precisely is meant by the terms ‘human’ and ‘humanity’. Deploying a model of posthumanism as a hermeneutical principle …
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… the monstrosity that results when technological posthumanism comes to fruition while their imagined future societies remain grounded in humanist hierarchies, including that of class, gender, and race.</p>
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