Essays about: "anthropocentrism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 40 essays containing the word anthropocentrism.

1. 16. Who Is to Blame? : An Ecolinguistic Analysis of the Portrayal of Human and Non-Human Animals in the Initial Phase of the Corona Crisis

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för språk, kultur och interaktion

   Author : Rebecca Wikström; [2021]
   Keywords : linguistics; ecolinguistics; critical discourse analysis; language; language studies; corona; Covid-19; linguistic portrayal; discourse; linguistic blame; ecocriticism; anthropocentrism; lingvistik; ekolingvistik; språk; språkvetenskap; kritisk diskursanalys; diskurs; ekokritik; corona; covid-19;

   Abstract : The corona virus has spread steadily and led to consequences on a larger scale than anyone could have imagined, and it is not at all surprising that we want to find someone to hold responsible. Who is to blame for this terrible situation that we have to live through?  By taking an ecolinguistic approach, primarily inspired by Arran Stibbe (2021), this study explores how human and non-human animals are being blamed for the corona crisis in a corpus based on 15 news articles. READ MORE

3. 17. Residual Care - Stories from an Extractive Landscape

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Malin Bergman; [2020]
   Keywords : Boliden; Västerbotten; care; mining; narrative;

   Abstract : Told through a story, the thesis explores the complexities of care and mining in relation to residual architecture. It approaches our world in a humble manner and aims to decentralise the human through proposing spaces of care for human and non-human alike. READ MORE

4. 18. Speculating Relationships

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Lennart Czienskowski; [2020]
   Keywords : Speculative Design; Post-Humanism; Post-Anthropocentrism; Human-Artifact Relationship; Object Character; Interaction Attributes; Phenomenology; Research Through Design; Aesthetics; Materiality; Object Behaviour; Relationship-centered Design;

   Abstract : In this thesis the idea of relationship-centered design is proposed based on a speculative design project which is grounded in an understanding of post-anthropocentrism. To facilitate post-anthropocentric human-artifact relationships, that don’t favor living actors over non-living actor, objects may appear to have a life-like agency based on needs and therefore must be empathized with which can be achieved through object characters. READ MORE

5. 19. "Why Did I Live"

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Tora Åsling; [2020]
   Keywords : Mary Shelley; Meredith Ann Pierce; Humanism; Posthumanism; Anthropocentrism; Speciesism; Artificial Life; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis studies how Mary Shelley and Meredith Ann Pierce criticise Western patriarchal societies through the depiction of the creation of artificial life. The thesis discusses how Shelley and Pierce’s critique consequently includes a critique of Humanism, since the school of thought had a pivotal role in the formation of the civilizational model of these Western societies. READ MORE

6. 20. 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