Sökning: "cartesian dualism"

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  1. 1. Movement towards socioecological change: The case of Ecosomatics

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Författare :Wilma Lagerman; [2024-03-19]
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    Sammanfattning : Several scholars both within and outside the field of human ecology argue that the perceptual human-nature divide contributes profoundly to patterns of unsustainability and weak sustainability visible in the world today. Deliberately engaging in conscious bodily-felt contact with the natural environment is suggested to uncover appropriate, embodied angles to approaching ecology and the environmental crisis. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Animal in the Mirror : Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Life of Pi

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Miryam Bernadette Danielsson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Life of Pi; anthropomorphism; zoomorphism; anthropophagy; cannibalism; ecocriticism; animal studies; human-animal dualism; Yann Martel; cartesian dualism; animal philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This essay explores the application of zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. The novel, rather than being a mere shipwreck-narrative or a miraculous tale with religious overtones, is also a story about the complicated and perhaps inevitably divided relationship between humans and animals. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Bodies, current vehicles, or embodied agents? : An anthropological study of the human body and the human condition in an age of Transhumanism

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Författare :Ingrid Bäckström; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Transhumanism; Body; Human Condition; Ontology; Cryonics; Mind Uploading; Primo Posthuman;

    Sammanfattning : Transhumanism is a philosophy and a contemporary movement dedicated to improving the human condition in various ways. This thesis explores how the transhumanist movement contributes to the contemporary conceptualization or reconceptualization of the human body and the human condition. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ecology From Within: Ecocriticism and Allegory in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Joel Fransson; [2019-01-08]
    Nyckelord :ecology; nature; allegory; dualism;

    Sammanfattning : This essay reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest to explore whether there is a connection between Cartesian dualism, allegorical reading, and environmentalist thought. To answer this the essay employs the philosophy and theoretical writings of Timothy Morton, namely The Ecological Thought and Ecology Without Nature. LÄS MER

  7. 5. När sten-trädet sjunger : En undersökning av livfull materia och gränsöverskridande kroppar i Wild Seed och Altered Carbon

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Kim Östman; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Jane Bennett; Thing-Power; vital materiality; cyborgs; posthumanism; ecocriticism; Jane Bennett; ting-kraft; vital materialitet; cyborgs; posthumanism; ekokritik;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper, I study vibrant matter and bodily transgressions in Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed and Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon. LÄS MER