Essays about: "becoming-with"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word becoming-with.

  1. 1. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Jorinde Bosma; [2023]
    Keywords : deer; performativity; agential realism; becoming-with; human animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; posthumanism; choreographies; materiality; biopower; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE

  3. 2. "It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with" : A Feminist-Phenomenological Re-telling of Donna Haraway's Practices of Collaborative Writing and Storytelling

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Silvia Thomackenstein; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist writing; phenomenology; Donna Haraway; Situated Knowledges; storytelling; nomadic subjects; co-authoring; Rosi Braidotti; Nina Lykke; Mona Livholts; feminist modes of academic writing; curatorial editing; publishing; exhibition catalogue; worlding; becoming-with; curatorial research; quoting; referencing; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Bruno Latour; Peter Weibel; transdisciplinarity;

    Abstract : This paper explores through Donna Haraway's storytelling practices feminist approaches to collaborative writing. Employing a phenomenological qualitative research approach, the thesis aims to analyze how Haraway herself exercises feminist writing and facilitates the learning of collaborative storytelling. READ MORE

  4. 3. Becoming with Rocks : Arriving in the Riddling Middle of (tourist) Places: touch, proximity, indeterminacy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Matt Tuggey; [2021]
    Keywords : place-assemblage; becoming with; embodiment; touch; relationality; ecofeminist materiality; tourism; sustainabili;

    Abstract : The tourism industry is both large and growing, with private and public actors investing heavily in the commodification of places to travel to, supporting individuals with the wealth to do so, to be in different places for short time periods. Correspondingly, popular discourses and research within tourism studies have arisen, looking at attitudes and social and environmental impacts drawn along delineations of the tourist and the host and spatially enclosed tourist places or ‘destinations’. READ MORE

  5. 4. Into the Abyss™ : Toward an understanding of sexual technologies as co-actors in techno-social networks

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Anne Moyerbrailean; [2018]
    Keywords : Abyss Creations; Feminist Technoscience Studies; RealDoll; Sex Robots; Sexual Technologies;

    Abstract : Much has been written recently in mainstream media about sex robots. However, due to the recent developments in this area of robotic and AI technologies, few academics have critically addressed these humanoid sexual technologies through the frameworks provided by Feminist Technoscience Studies. READ MORE

  6. 5. Exploring the Mediating Role of Playful Technological Artefacts Designed for Animals and Humans

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

    Author : Michelle Westerlaken; [2015]
    Keywords : animal; computer; interaction; haraway; latour; ANT; interaction; design; annotated; video;

    Abstract : In this thesis I investigate the mediating role of playful technological artefacts designed for animals and humans through theory and practice with the over-all aim to explore how we can design meaningful artefacts both for and with animals in order to better understand them and enrich or improve their lives.Starting from Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory, which offers a valuable starting point for the inclusion of both humans and nonhumans as actors in a shared network that is constantly being made and remade, I suggest adopting a more informed form of inevitable anthropomorphism in interaction design with animals. READ MORE