Essays about: "humanism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 40 essays containing the word humanism.

  1. 11. Poetry, Nature and Trauma during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intersectional Examination of the Traumatised Subject and their Relationship to Nature

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

    Author : Diana Iuga; [2021]
    Keywords : Poetry; Nature; Trauma; COVID-19; Pandemic; Romantic Humanism; Ecocriticism; Trauma Theory; Uncertainty; Unspeakable; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the ways in which ‘‘Ides of March, 2020’’ (2020) by Didi Jackson, ‘‘Sing a Darkness’’ (2020) by Carl Phillips, and ‘‘Desert Lily’’ (2020) by Rigoberto González engage with concepts of nature and trauma. All three poems reveal poignant elaborations on human position and relationship to nature, and how nature might help the speakers dealing with the traumatic present of the pandemic. READ MORE

  3. 12. 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

  4. 13. "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

  5. 14. Ethics in Artificial Intelligence : How Relativism is Still Relevant

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Loukas Piloidis; [2020]
    Keywords : artificial intelligence; ethics; Ancient Greek philosophy;

    Abstract : This essay tries to demarcate and analyse Artificial Intelligence ethics. Going away from the traditional distinction in normative, meta, and applied ethics, a different split is executed, inspired by the three most prominent schools of thought: deontology, consequentialism, and Aristotelian virtue ethics. READ MORE

  6. 15. A monument to the flaws

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Moa Larsdotter Persson; [2019]
    Keywords : Disintegration; Deconstructed; Screen Print; Distressing; Walls; Dystopia; Post humanism; Façade; Ruin Romanticism; Illusion; Monument;

    Abstract : My work is a tribute to the disintegration of built environments, and the chaos and disturbance that it brings into the idea of what a city should look like. An ode to the ruins that are witnesses to destructive social and economic systems and that tell the stories of the life that once inhabited them. READ MORE