Essays about: "Nonhuman"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 63 essays containing the word Nonhuman.

  1. 11. Matter Manifesting Itself : Understanding Nonhuman Agency in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2022]
    Keywords : ecocriticism; new materialism; agency; materiality; transformation; nonhuman; latin; ancient literature; roman literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines transformations of human characters into trees, stones, and water sources in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The current climate crisis is partly the result of a view of nature as a passive object, or inert matter, that humans without consequences can exploit. READ MORE

  3. 12. 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

  4. 13. Design Activism Challenging the Speciesist Upbringing of Children

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Medie- och Informationsteknik; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakulteten

    Author : Matilda Wallén; [2022]
    Keywords : Critical Design; Provotypes; Design Activism; Animal Rights; Speciesism; Child Rearing; Parenting;

    Abstract : The arguments for advancing the interests of other animals are overwhelming. Human's exploitation of other animals is deeply intertwined with the modern crisis. The reality for the nonhuman animals we consume is a blind spot in our children's education. Not only are they withheld certain information, but they are also lied to. READ MORE

  5. 14. The dynamic process of brand negotiation in virtual brand communities in the airline industry - a case study of a full-service carrier, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Jing Rong Chang; Corina Choi Magnusson; [2021-07-01]
    Keywords : Brand negotiation; virtual brand communities; trust and commitment; actor-network theory; airline industry;

    Abstract : The increasing application of digitalisation and the popular use of social media affect the way brands communicate with their customers. The growing significance of virtual brand communities (VBCs) such as Facebook brand fan pages has led to a change in how brands and consumers interact, thus urging researchers and marketers to look for new perspectives of management within this area. READ MORE

  6. 15. Triptych of ruderal architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Erik Lokrantz; [2021]
    Keywords : nonhuman actors; ownership; property; artistic research; speculative fabulation; science fiction; ruin; ruderal; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; haraway; bennet; stengers; le guin;

    Abstract : The Ruderal Triptych is a narrative, fictional, artistic, research project. It centers itself on questions of ownership as a legal and physical machinery, that works within global extractive economies. I want to question what we are really producing when we produce architecture. READ MORE