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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"the posthuman"”.
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Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming
This thesis researches 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 …
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Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard
<p>While the fiction of J.G. Ballard has been primarily explored through postmodern criticism, his narratives and settings predict major issues concerning the contemporary discourse of posthumanism. His texts explore the escalating economic, social, and ecological crises converging within the …
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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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SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM
<p>This thesis investigates the multiple readings that arise when the division between the biological and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg’s …
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COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
<p>In this article, I argue that the vampires in Charlaine Harris’ 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” …
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Finding the ‘human’ in the ‘posthuman’: The representation of the technologically enhanced posthuman in Young Adult fiction
… lives in recent years, and it continues to shape them in ways hitherto only imaginable in science-fiction. Moving beyond humanism, the human/technology relationship has caused the question of what it means to be human to be considered through posthuman thought. I see the reality of technology’s …
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A posthuman curriculum: subjectivity at the crossroads of time
… on three critical issues facing educators in the 21st century: how technology is reshaping what it means 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 …
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Posthumanism in Literature: Redefining Selfhood, Temporality, and Reality/ies through Fiction
… 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 how understandings …
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Posthuman War: Race, Gender, Technology, and the Making of U.S. Military Futures
This dissertation investigates drone warfare, the production of Special Operations Forces, and innovations in the medical treatment of war-related trauma, drawing these together to propose they may be read as indicative of a larger military “Posthuman Project” that is driving technological …
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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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Cyborg Bodies, Human Minds: Robert Venditti's The Surrogates, Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita and the Great Myth of Posthumanism
The topic of humans altered and improved through advanced cyborg technology—technology that amalgamates animal and machine—has long been of interest in science fiction, gaining popularity in most Western countries and Japan. This paper examines two graphic novel series, Robert Venditti’s The …
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Reimagining the Liberal Arts in an Age of Technoscientific Progress
<p>The following study will investigate the impact of dismantling liberal arts curriculum during an era of dramatic technoscientific progress. I will explore the development of the posthuman focusing specifically on the areas of virtual reality and biomedicine. As I unravel the implications that …
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Peeling the Body. How can art practice utilize the experience of medical events to consider the implications for the living human being of notions of the posthuman? How can this process affect an understanding of the positions of the subject / medical object within the western medical tradition and, in so doing, suggest a more empowered subject?
This practice based research focuses on events of the body, using the participating observer- researcher's experiences of medical events undertaken by her within a western medical environment to investigate her living existence as a 'unit', an 'experiencing corporeal body'. The project addresses a …
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Power On: The ‘Digital Other’ and Emergent Personhood in American Sci-Fi
In total, this project aims to identify the new subject in its recently represented contexts. The project ultimately argues that the new subject is, in these contexts, a “digital other,” existing because of exploitation and entrenched in histories of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism. …
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'The end of the world as we know it': imagining new possibilities for the Anthropocene through a study of Nigerian Africanfuturism
The imaginary of the Anthropocene as an environmental apocalypse facing the planet and calls for ecological literature from the perspective of the Global North masks the current environmental crisis in parts of the world that are “already living the apocalypse”. Likewise, science fiction has been …
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“Curiously Alive and Vital”: D.H. Lawrence, Gender and the Body
In this thesis, I examine the importance of the body to identity and fulfilment in three of D.H. Lawrence’s best-known novels. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow, and Women in Love, each written in the early twentieth century before Lawrence’s death in 1930, Lawrence represents the bodies of …
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Posthumanist Children: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings
This thesis 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 …
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Developing a critically inclusive study of religion
The scientific, or secular, study of religion is a relatively new endeavour, and has faced multiple obstacles over the course of its development. The primary challenge has consisted of the need to distinguish the secular study of religion from the theological study of religion. The commitment to …
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Preposthuman : an architectural propaedeutic for the digitally-enhanced
For users to become posthuman the architectural environment must become a training apparatus, a type of propaedeutic, where our built developments simultaneously develop us. This project fashions waste, ingestion, lounging, and bathing environments as components of our posthuman training grounds. …
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