Essays about: "cyborgs"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word cyborgs.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. The Colonized Cyborgs : A feminist postcolonial perspective and intersectional exploration of feminized digital avatars in the West

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap

    Author : Sara Margrét Sigurðardóttir; [2020]
    Keywords : CGI influencers and social media; feminist postcolonial theory; the Other; cyborgs; intersectionality; critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : Colonial legacies continue to impact representational practices in contemporary society. Social media platforms have provided a patriarchal marketplace in which female bodies become commodifiable products as ‘influencers’ and processes of racialisation and Othering are reproduced. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Fantastic Adventures of No-body: Mechanisms of cyborg disembodiment in five texts by women authors

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Meryl Trussler; [2014]
    Keywords : Catherynne M Valente; Anne McCaffrey; Ann Leckie; Laura J Mixon; James Tiptree Jr.; cyborgs; cyborg feminism; cyberfeminism; Donna Haraway; science fiction; embodiment; disembodiment; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Science fiction is a genre in which anything is possible. It therefore comprises the perfect litmus test of any given culture’s prevailing hopes and fears about the future. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cyborg athletes : A European history of gender, technology and virtue in sports

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Michael Torsson; [2013]
    Keywords : cyborg; sport; gender; athlete; athletics; philosophy; feminism; cyborg; sport; idrott; filosofi; atlet; atletitism; idrottsfilosofi; feminism; genus; kön;

    Abstract : This essay takes its start in a discussion on gender, sports and cyborgs by Swedish philosopher Kutte Jönsson in his book Idrottsfilosofiska introduktioner. I argue that he is wrong in arguing for agnosticism as to what sport is. Instead I give an historic account of what sport is and what values is inherent in our modern conception of sport. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mythomachines Suspended, Fallen and Jumping Cyborgs

    University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Ángela Hoyos; [2009-06-29T10:14:57Z]
    Keywords : Media Art; Installation Art; Performance Art; Kinetics; Poetry; Comparative Religion; Theatre Arts; Latin American Literature; Intellectual Freedom;

    Abstract : In this text I am presenting the installation and performance project called ‘Automatic bai Chans’ I developed since the spring 2008 mainly in collaboration with Juan Hernández, student of the C: Art: Media Master’s program. We collaborated also with Anna-Sara Åberg from the School of Music and Drama, who brought a valuable input to the project as well. READ MORE