Essays about: "Karen Barad"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Karen Barad.

  1. 1. "The Uphill AI Contract Challenge The Intra-Active Task: Reimagining Contracts"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Filip Seiborg Wikström; [2024-02-16]
    Keywords : AI; Contract Law; New Materialism; Karen Barad; Intra-Action; Spacetimemattering; Ethico-Onto-Epistem-Ology; Cartesian-Newtonian paradigms; Antimethodology; Agency; Machine Learning;

    Abstract : The traditional contract theories are insufficient to handle the challenges Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently causing and will continue to cause to contract law. These challenges involve problems concerning the subject/object divide, agency, the embedding of legal code into interactive programming code, and ethical aspects concerning the transfer of power away from lawyers. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Current Need for Continuity

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Nils Patrik Svensson; [2022]
    Keywords : agential realism; Karen Barad; new materialism; math; infinitesimals; complexity; quantum physics; Copenhagen interpretation; phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty; continuity; Rawls; binary;

    Abstract : Throughout these last few decades, phenomenology and modern physics have slowly started to approach each other in order to bridge the gap between the subjective and objective. In this thesis I aim to show an approach done with the help of Karen Barad's agential realism; a quantum interpretation enabling us to better understand and analyse our complex world, as well as our perception of it. READ MORE

  4. 3. Mediating Agencies : Towards an Agential Realist Interpretation of Gender Identification and Self-representation in the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Astri Karine Lundgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Agency; diffraction; gender identification; intra-activity; materialized self-representation; Pompeii; post-human performativity; the Praedia of Julia Felix;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the rational properties of women’s gender identification and self-representation from political theorist Lois McNay’s generative logics, employing the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii, as a case study. Previous debates rooted in semantics and representationalism have focused on non-elite stereotypes or negative gendered dichotomies fostered by comprehensive views on Roman women’s exclusion from public life. READ MORE

  5. 4. AI as Gatekeepers to the Job Market : A Critical Reading of; Performance, Bias, and Coded Gaze in Recruitment Chatbots

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Karin Victorin; [2021]
    Keywords : data feminism; digital discrimination; AI recruitment; chatbots; facial recognition; AFEA; hiring tools; feminist technoscience studies; intersectionality; coded gaze; hiring bots; social robots; performance; AI technology ethics; theatre and AI; Augusto Boal; posthumanism; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is AI recruitment chatbots, digital discrimination, and data feminism (D´Ignazio and F.Klein 2020), where I aim to critically analyze issues of bias in these types of human-machine interaction technologies. READ MORE

  6. 5. Performance Art and Agential Realism: Producing Material-Discursive Knowledge about Class and the Body.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Karron Corbett; [2021]
    Keywords : Feminist performance art; agential realism; intersectionality; class; new materialism; class-drag; performativity; class-passing; intra-activity;

    Abstract : Using new materialist approaches to intersectional theories of gender/sex –particularly Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemological framework, agential realism– this thesis examines how knowledge about class is produced, through feminist performance art practices. Through this lens I will examine how two pieces of performance art by U.K. READ MORE