Essays about: "posthumanist"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word posthumanist.

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. A sexual Series: Visningsex

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen Konsthögskolan

   Author : Eva-Marie/Emie Elg; [2023]
   Keywords : Fri Konst; Posthumanism; sexbot; Futurism; AI punk; Cyborg Drag; Asexuality;

   Abstract : The art series A Sexual Series is based on posthumanist theory and asexual experience. Shapes of performative alter egos materialized from a queer cyborg position of technologically enhanced crip experiences (the strong symbolical constructing process of straightening scoliosis surgery). READ MORE

4. 3. Getting in Touch With Seaweed : Exploring a Non-Exploitative Relationship With a More-Than-Human Actor Through Design Research

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Anna Marie Schröder; [2022]
   Keywords : seaweed; ecology; posthumanist design; more-than-human ethics; multispecies philosophy; interaction design; design-based research;

   Abstract : Through human over-exploitation of nature, more and more ocean species approach ecological tipping points. On the other hand, more and more people suffer from climate anxiety. This thesis study explored an alternative relationship between humans and marine seaweed species through design research. READ MORE

5. 4. The Habitat : A Posthumanist Design Project for Making Kin with Nonhuman

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

   Author : Betyul Hafazoglu; [2022]
   Keywords : climate emergency; nonhuman; agency; posthumanism; multispecies design; human exceptionalism;

   Abstract : ‘the habitat’ is a Design+Change project which originates from the will to create positive change in the current situation of climate and ecological emergency. The design project takes the Anthropocene and the materialization of nonhumans as starting point and develops further around the possibilities of forming non-anthropocentric and nonhuman-centered mentalities and world-making processes. READ MORE

6. 5. Visualizing hyperobjects: a co-operative play with nature

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetik

   Author : Mattsson Emelie; [2021]
   Keywords : artistic research; media technology; hyperobjects; intra-action; performativity; material-discursive practices; ecology; konstnärlig forskning; medieteknik; hyperobjekt; intra-aktion; performativitet; materiell-diskursiva praktiker; ekologi;

   Abstract : Based on Timothy Mortons notion of hyperobject, this material-discursive practice is a cooperative play of forces and intra-active agencies between nature and the technical world. This research reflects especially a paradigmatic shift from the traditional model to one of an interrelated and performative network, in which all of the non-human entities are seen with the same existence and considered to view as operative agents. READ MORE