Essays about: "hyperobjects"

Found 2 essays containing the word hyperobjects.

1. 1. Facing Anthropocene Threats : Rational Bureaucracy vs. Anthropocene Climate Change in The Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Lora Ivanoska; [2023]
   Keywords : Anthropocene; Climate Change; Bureaucracy; Rational Bureaucracy; Climate Change Bureaucracy; Jeff Vandermeer; Southern Reach; Annihilation; Authority;

   Abstract : Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach series has been a talking point for many ecocritical papers exploring themes of Anthropocene, uncanny, and hyperobjects. Despite the plethora of themes being investigated concerning climate change in Southern Reach, an important aspect, the climate change bureaucracy of the Southern Reach agency, is glossed over. READ MORE

3. 2. Visualizing hyperobjects: a co-operative play with nature

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetik

   Author : Mattsson Emelie; [2021]
   Keywords : artistic research; media technology; hyperobjects; intra-action; performativity; material-discursive practices; ecology; konstnärlig forskning; medieteknik; hyperobjekt; intra-aktion; performativitet; materiell-diskursiva praktiker; ekologi;

   Abstract : Based on Timothy Mortons notion of hyperobject, this material-discursive practice is a cooperative play of forces and intra-active agencies between nature and the technical world. This research reflects especially a paradigmatic shift from the traditional model to one of an interrelated and performative network, in which all of the non-human entities are seen with the same existence and considered to view as operative agents. READ MORE