Essays about: "Posthuman"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 35 essays containing the word Posthuman.

1. 16. Defining the Voice of Montreal: Exploring Possibilities for Human-Machine Companionship

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Malik Dehbi Talbot; [2020]
   Keywords : critical posthumanism; artificial intelligence; virtual assistant; tourism; science and technology studies; human-machine relationships; voicebot; labor relations; companion; sociomaterial assemblage; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the possibility for (re)defining the relationship between humans and robots with conversational interfaces. It does so by looking at the creation process of a voice and text-based virtual assistant for tourists from the perspective of critical posthumanism and posthuman performativity. READ MORE

3. 17. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Christina Tente; [2020]
   Keywords : voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

   Abstract : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. READ MORE

4. 18. The Human Non-Human Boundary in 'Dune'
 – An Ontological Reading through a Comparative Nietzschean and Transhuman Framework

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Kiti Misha; [2020]
   Keywords : Frank Herbert; Dune; Science Fiction; Nietzsche; Overhuman; Transhumanism; Posthuman; Transhumanism; Human; Nonhuman;

   Abstract : In Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga, we find a transhumanist and Nietzschean argument about the evolution of humans achieved as a result of the triggering effect of the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. I claim that the metamorphoses of the selected characters reflect the central tenants of the transformation of Nietzsche’s overhuman, or transhumanism’s posthuman. READ MORE

5. 19. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

6. 20. Practically Human. : Performing Social Robots and Feminist Aspects on Agency, Body and Gender.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Karin Victorin; [2019]
   Keywords : Feminist technoscience; critical posthumanism; posthuman; social robot; AI; technology and art; robots in theatre; human-machine; agency; body; gender; intra-action; cyborg; liminal personae; human-like machines; Judy Wajcman; Karen Barad; Donna Haraway.;

   Abstract : Through an experimental theatre play, this thesis explores the development of human-like agency in contemporary “social robot” technology. The entrance point of this study is the gender gap and lack of diversity in contemporary AI/robot development, with an emerging need for interdisciplinary research across robot technology and social sciences. READ MORE