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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"posthumanist"”.
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Posthumanist Children: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings
… productively entangles two literary bodies: posthumanist and new materialist theory, and children’s literature and media. Specifically, this thesis applies Donna Haraway’s diffractive (rather than reflective) approach to understanding theoretical concepts and Karen Barad’s agential realist …
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How to design with the animal: Constructing posthumanist environments
… more than providing a space for program, a new posthumanist architecture could offer the visitor with the experience of participating in a conversation with another animal.
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"""The face of things"": the posthumanist imagination in eighteenth-century Britain"
"""The Face of Things: The Posthumanist Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Britain"" examines how eighteenth-century British subjects negotiated their identities in response to the increased contact with nonhuman agents—plants, animals, diseases, and automata—facilitated by global networks of …
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Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… a grounding in the tenets of both humanist and posthumanist philosophy, I analyze eight works of science fiction that depict artificial intelligence, cyborgs, and body swapping to determine the common critiques made. The source of the troubling aspects of these imagined futures doesn’t derive …
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A Posthumanist Study of Health and the Food System: Vegetal Politics in Toronto Urban Gardens in the Anthropocene
… the food system in the Anthropocene. I draw on posthumanist theory to investigate what happens to understandings of food systems and health if the ontological dualism in Euro-Western thought that separates humans from nature is challenged, or even undone. What is a posthumanist understanding of …
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Becoming Deaf in the Posthuman Era: Posthumanism, Arts-Based Research and Deaf Education
… a high school in a midwestern Canadian city. Posthumanist onto-epistemology proposes a shift from anthropocentrism to a posthumanism that emphasizes multiple and shifting relationships between animals, plants, humans, and the earth. Here, posthumanism proposes that human activity not be …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… 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 establishes the genealogy of …
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Movement in Students’ Mathematical Thinking and Knowing
… students’ mathematical activities from posthumanist perspectives. In Ingold’s posthumanist theory of making, new things, including knowing, emerge as the flows of dynamic human and nonhuman materials correspond. This thesis further contributes to posthumanist research through analysis of …
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“Let Them Play”: Embodied Literacy Learning Through Play in the Early Years Classroom
… play is diminishing from these classrooms. Posthumanist theoretical perspectives identify the role of the body in learning, identifying play as an example of embodied learning. This study considers the role of the mind and body in embodied literacy-learning through play. The literature …
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Posthumanism in Literature: Redefining Selfhood, Temporality, and Reality/ies through Fiction
… into our cultural values and beliefs. Using posthumanist theory, I examine how understandings of selfhood and its relations to time and reality are complicated within three works of fiction and how those complications represent and articulate a societal shift in meaning and knowledge that is …
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Gutter Pop
… and its thematic resonances, I am guided by posthumanist theorists Timothy Morton, Jane Bennett, Karen Barad, and Elizabeth Grosz. My engagement with wax explores a mediated materiality shaped by haptic, synthetic, and digital interventions. These interventions extend reflections on the …
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Agential realism and the “female harpist”: The relational ontology of genderharp in Georges Aperghis’ Fidélité (1982)
… Barad’s critical theories (agential realism, posthumanist performativity, posthumanism, new materialism) and Greek-French composer Georges Aperghis’ solo harp work Fidélité: pour harpiste seule regardée par un homme (“for female harpist watched by a man”) creates new philosophical …
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Teaching intra-active comprehension with picturebooks in a grade three South African classroom
My posthumanist research explores how the material-discursive reality of the classroom environment, school time practices, and bodily movements affect the teaching and learning of literac(y)ies. My posthumanist research materialised the notion of Intra-Active Comprehension as a way to describe the …
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Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality
… Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both human and nonhuman animal bodies are governed and controlled in a biopolitical era. Each chapter focuses on textual links between …
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minoritarian ecologies: performance before a more-than-human world
… practico-theoretical approach that, following posthumanist and neomaterialist elaborations of ontology and epistemology, creates a ‘material-discursive entanglement’ (Barad, 2007) of bodies and concepts. In this posthuman continuum of practice, I argue that eco-aesthetics is an ethico-political …
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The Kleinian Subject in the Anthropocene: Posthumanism, Narration of Crisis, and the Ethics of Reparative Care
… context by analyzing the role of subjectivity in posthumanist theorizing, focusing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology. In response to feminist, queer, decolonial, and critical race concerns for the intersectional human within the posthumanities, this research questions the …
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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism
… act as a corrective to the assumptions of posthumanist theory by positioning genetic posthuman characters as disadvantaged beings, using forms of dehumanisation made familiar by recent history. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004), Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), and Margaret …
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Trans-corporeal bodybuilding: an exploration of the trans-corporeal relations between South African competitive male bodybuilders and their more-than-human world(s)
… gap, this study adopted a feminist-inflected posthumanist approach to explore how the material agencies of South African competitive male bodybuilders’ muscle as well as their more-than-human world(s) co-participate in building their muscle, for the competitive stage. In doing so, the study …
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Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard
… a number of cultural and ideological concerns posthumanist studies seek to address.</p>
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