Sökning: "Posthuman"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Posthuman.

1. 1. Becoming Together and Apart : technoemotions and other posthuman entanglements

   Författare :Eva Svedmark; Erik Stolterman; Anna Croon Fors; Pelle Ehn; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technoemotions; Feminist technoscience; Posthuman theory; Onto-epistemology; Diffraction; Norm-breaking; Digital dirt; Privacy; Sharing; Self-disclosure; Stickiness; computer and systems sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Using social media and norm-breaking material as an empirical touchstone this thesis elaborates, investigates and explores the entangled relationships between humans and technology in social media settings. Guided by uncomfortable, emotional and bodily online sharing the thesis gives voice to stories that are seldom heard, by people whose lives are rarely spoken of. LÄS MER

3. 2. Designing with care : Self-centered research for interaction design otherwise

   Författare :Karey Helms; Ylva Fernaeus; Airi Lampinen; Anna Ståhl; Laura Forlano; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; interaction design; care; care ethics; posthuman; posthuman feminism; more-than-human; design theory; research program; design otherwise; first-person; autotheory; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the research program designing with care as a pathway towards interaction design otherwise amid a world in crisis. Considering how established ways of doing interaction design will change involves recognizing the role of digital materials in social injustice and systemic inequality. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions

   Författare :Van Leavenworth; Heidi Hansson; Catherine Spooner; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gothic; interactive fiction; subjectivity; posthuman; unspeakable; live burial; labyrinth; uncanny; grotesque; vampire; historiographic metafiction; cybergothic; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. LÄS MER

5. 4. Controlling Destiny : Julian Huxley's Post-Darwinian Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism

   Författare :Ingrid Dunér; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Julian Huxley; post-Darwinian evolutionism; transhumanism; evolutionary biology; posthuman; sociotechnical imaginaries; control; history of science; intellectual history; history of the future; Julian Huxley; post-Darwinian evolutionism; transhumanism; evolutionary biology; posthuman; sociotechnical imaginaries; control; history of science; intellectual history; history of the future;

   Sammanfattning : The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) attempted to promote a “religion for the future,” which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. It was Huxley’s firm belief that mankind needed a unifying system of thought that could motivate action and change. LÄS MER

7. 5. Aux frontières de l’anthropocentrisme : la présence animale dans les romans de Michel Houellebecq

   Författare :Tony Thorström; Christina Kullberg; Roland Lysell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Michel Houellebecq; Animals; Posthuman; Novel; Borders; Anthropocentrism; Subject; Metaphors; Descriptions; Observer; Science; History; Consumer; Product; Hierarchy; Romanska språk; Romance Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation sets out to explore the animal presence in the novels of contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq. Focusing on this often overlooked aspect in the growing number of publications dedicated to Houellebecq’s literary production, this study argues that the presence of animals is central to understanding how his novels are structured around borders between not only animals and humans but also between humans themselves. LÄS MER