Essays about: "Annihilation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the word Annihilation.

  1. 1. The Pseudo-Unitary Group U(p,q) in Quantum Magnonics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Materialteori

    Author : Maximilian Meyer-Mölleringhof; [2024]
    Keywords : quantum magnonics; materials theory; pseudo-unitary; quantum mechanics; magnons; antiferromagnets;

    Abstract : The study of magnons is an essential part of combining quantum information science and spintronics, allowing for the investigation of quantum properties such as entanglement in solid-state devices. Magnons are commonly described using the theory of T. Holstein and H. READ MORE

  3. 2. Facing Anthropocene Threats : Rational Bureaucracy vs. Anthropocene Climate Change in The Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer

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

    Author : Lora Ivanoska; [2023]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; Climate Change; Bureaucracy; Rational Bureaucracy; Climate Change Bureaucracy; Jeff Vandermeer; Southern Reach; Annihilation; Authority;

    Abstract : Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach series has been a talking point for many ecocritical papers exploring themes of Anthropocene, uncanny, and hyperobjects. Despite the plethora of themes being investigated concerning climate change in Southern Reach, an important aspect, the climate change bureaucracy of the Southern Reach agency, is glossed over. READ MORE

  4. 3. Areas against annihilation? : A critical assessment of the compatibility between biodiversity science and Swedish law on area protection

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Ida Edling Müller; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In the ongoing global biodiversity crisis, science deems a system-wide, structural, and fundamental transformation of society necessary to mitigate severe risks for planetary and human health. These risks will escalate further if a paradigm shift in normative human-nature relationships is not realised. The legal system needs to change. READ MORE

  5. 4. “We Did Not Trust Ourselves” : A study of the unreliable narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Filip Mattsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Annihilation; Jeff VanderMeer; perception; unreliable narrator; science fiction; horror;

    Abstract : Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. READ MORE

  6. 5. "I'm Going Away Now" : Posthumanism and the End of the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Evelina Magnusson; [2020]
    Keywords : Oryx and Crake; Margaret Atwood; posthumanism; Anthropocene; Oryx and Crake; Margaret Atwood; posthumanism; antropocen;

    Abstract : This essay explores the themes of posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. It analyses how the novel describes humanity’s effects on the earth in the novel and its human and non-human inhabitants, during the geological era that is called the Anthropocene. READ MORE