Essays about: "Nonhuman"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 63 essays containing the word Nonhuman.

  1. 6. Längtande Kroppar: Höga Visan som Pedagogik för Begären

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Nivea Schnizler; [2022-06-22]
    Keywords : Song of Songs; desire; eros; sexuality; common life; Höga Visan; begär; längtan; sexualitet; gemensamt liv;

    Abstract : This study explores how the Song of Songs could and should be interpreted in its own form, i.e., as erotic poetry, and on the basis of sexual desire. READ MORE

  3. 7. Sápmi, Sweden's Smörgåsbord? On Human Rights, Rights of Nature and Extractivism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Stella Terjung; [2022]
    Keywords : Rights of Nature – Extractivism – Human Rights – Decolonisation – Ontologies – Self-determination; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In North Sweden, Sámi activists are resisting the proposed Gállok mine, disapproving of their land being treated as a 'smörgåsbord' and countering the assumption of modernity that dichotomises the human and the nonhuman. Against this backdrop, this thesis looks at some of the unprecedented challenges the rapid extension of globalisation poses to the human and nonhuman world. READ MORE

  4. 8. An Ecocritical Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates : Human- Nonhuman Interactions in the Fairy Tales

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Eva Aramian; [2022]
    Keywords : Ecocriticism; Victorian ecocriticism; Animal Studies; Oscar Wilde; Fairy tales; Human-nonhuman interaction; Transformation.;

    Abstract : Abstract   This thesis investigates the interactions between human and nonhuman characters that express a particular concern regarding nature and the environment in Oscar Wilde's four fairy tales in A House of Pomegranates. The author utilizes a significant number of nonhuman characters to communicate with humans, which is a fairy-tale convention in which truth wins over falsehood, kindness is rewarded, and virtue triumphs over evil. READ MORE

  5. 9. Zooësis and Contemporary Art : Animal, Plant, and Machine Ontologies: Art Representations Beyond the Human

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Anna Pernilla Olofsson Hjorth; [2022]
    Keywords : Human-Nonhuman-Animal Studies; Zooësis; Biopolitical Aesthetics; Material Semiotics; Historical Animal Studies; Cultural Plant Studies; Taxidermy; BioArt; Plant-Art; Cyborg; Hybrid-Artifact;

    Abstract : What does it mean to take Animals, Plants, and Machines seriously when engaging in hybrid natures such as bioart, plant-art, taxidermy art and cyborgs in contemporary art?  Traditionally within art history the focus has been on human culture as the fundamental underpinning for cultural behaviour and productions, consequently rendering animal and plant histories invisible from the analysis of artworks. In this thesis I attend to the bodies of animals, plants, and machines put in the context of the zooësis (places/contact zones) of these bodies as biopolitical aesthetics (aesthetic bodies/objects) in contemporary art. READ MORE

  6. 10. Apocalypse Fatigue

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Amanda Islam Gustafsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Apocalypse; Illustration; Utopia; Dystopia; Organisms; Animism; Spirituality; Visual sustainability; Nature; Apokalyps; Illustration; Utopi; Dystopi; Organismer; Animism; Andlighet; Visuell Hållbarhet; Natur;

    Abstract : In this project I am exploring 6 different life forms; snail, slime mold, frog, rock, moss, and fungi. I am approaching these life-forms as agent entities for me to channel, and act for them as vessels. READ MORE