Essays about: "Response-Ability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Response-Ability.

  1. 1. Actions of Care(ss) : Being Responsible and Response-Able in Human Spaces – An Exercise to Engage Emphatically with Public Sculptures

    University essay from

    Author : Lisa-Marie Riemer; [2023]
    Keywords : sculptures; monuments; radical empathy; care; feminism; space; responsibility; response-ability; commemoration;

    Abstract : The text explores the concept of shared spaces and the role of spaces in caring for everything inhabited. It highlights the need for us humans to rethink spaces and engage with them. This thesis uses two sculptured objects in Malmö to illustrate the responsibility and response-ability objects and humans hold towards their places. READ MORE

  3. 2. Terrestrial Leadership to Stay With The Trouble: What can we learn from theory, philosophy, and Costa Rican stories of response-ability and string figuring?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Maricela Blanco Arias; [2022]
    Keywords : Terrestrial Leadership; Donna Haraway; SF Theory; String Figures; Staying with the Trouble; Post Qualitative Inquiry; The Plane of Immanence; Storytelling; Costa Rica;

    Abstract : This master thesis is inspired by St. Pierre’s post qualitative inquiry and the philosophy of immanence, which support the creation of concepts through immersion in theory, philosophy, and practice. This serves as a guide of thought for the inquirer´s journey of exploration and creativity. READ MORE

  4. 3. My Oh My Myoma! : An Autoethnographical Experiment of Thinking My Personal Reproductive Struggles with Haraway’s Planetary Ethic of Making Kin, Not Babies

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Anika Richter; [2021]
    Keywords : reproduction • child wish • response-ability • kinship • making kin • reproductive politics • autoethnography;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore Donna Haraway’s planetary ethic of making kin, not babies (2016) and how it could be put into practice by way of my own struggles with myoma (common muscle knots in the uterine tissue) and the question of having children or not. The personal reflections herein are based on my own thoughts and concerns, drawn from diary entries and personal conversations, on the issue of birthing and raising children on “a damaged earth” (Haraway, 2016, p. READ MORE

  5. 4. I am because we are : Ethical consequences of agential realism

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Author : Nils Patrik Svensson; [2021]
    Keywords : Karen Barad; Agential Realism; agentisk realism; responsibility; response ability; ethics; metaphysics; Democritus; agency; ai; global village; small world theory; consumption;

    Abstract : Within the interdisciplinary field of new materialism Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism deconstructs our current euro-western metaphysical perception of the world and our existence within it, to then re-build an understanding based on relatively new findings within quantum physics. In this thesis I try to recreate Barad’s theory to see what ethical consequences might come from it. READ MORE

  6. 5. Cooperative Apocalypse : Hostile Geological Forces in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Felicia Stenberg; [2020]
    Keywords : The Broken Earth trilogy; N. K. Jemisin; Bruno Latour; Agency; ANT; Geostory; Donna Haraway; Chthulucene; Sympoeisis; Become-with; Response-Ability; Anthropocene; Anthropocentrism; Posthumanism; Climate Fiction; Collectivism; Gaia Theory; Amitav Ghosh.;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the place of the human in the Anthropocene, and our relationship to the Earth through an analysis of N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. READ MORE