Essays about: "posthumanist performativity"
Found 5 essays containing the words posthumanist performativity.
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1. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE
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2. Visualizing hyperobjects: a co-operative play with nature
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetikAbstract : 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
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3. Being of Transit: Central American and Mexican Migrants’ Experiences of (Dis)Possession
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The thesis is based on the ethnographic fieldwork done during February 2015 in a place where aspects of transitory life are configured in an effort to (re)humanize those migrants that have been exposed to harm and (dis)possession, and thus entangled within an undesirable physical reality. Empirical attention is dedicated to the ways and means in which a particular migrant shelter located in the border region of Mexico-US operates and fulfills its purpose. READ MORE
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4. Virtual Violence and Protection from Participation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis studies protection as integral to security. Protection has been used to keep women from the ‘public sphere’ and abused by peacekeepers and patriarchs alike, suggesting that being protected is not synonymous with being safe but can cause violence and exclusion. READ MORE
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5. An Angel Passes By : Posthuman and Acousmatic Voices in Digitally Mediated Contemporary Live Poetry
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesignAbstract : This paper is a comparative analysis between two digitally mediated live poetry performances: Frikativ by Jörg Piringer and This Loud by Amy X Neuburg. More specifically, I examine how these poets use digital technology in their live performances to challenge traditional notions of the human voice. READ MORE