Sökning: "cyborgs"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 uppsatser innehållade ordet cyborgs.

  1. 1. Framtidens män(niskor) : En bild- och diskursanalys av Ex Machina utifrån kritiska framtidsstudier

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Idéhistoria

    Författare :Cäcilia Li; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Critical Future Studies; sociotechnical imaginaries; Ex Machina; artificial intelligence; cyborg; intersectionality.;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines visions of the future in Alex Garlands 2015 film Ex Machinausing critical futures studies and posthumanist theories. The aim is to make visible howfutures are constructed and how artificial bodies are coded based on ideas of the future. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Zooësis and Contemporary Art : Animal, Plant, and Machine Ontologies: Art Representations Beyond the Human

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Anna Pernilla Olofsson Hjorth; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Human-Nonhuman-Animal Studies; Zooësis; Biopolitical Aesthetics; Material Semiotics; Historical Animal Studies; Cultural Plant Studies; Taxidermy; BioArt; Plant-Art; Cyborg; Hybrid-Artifact;

    Sammanfattning : What does it mean to take Animals, Plants, and Machines seriously when engaging in hybrid natures such as bioart, plant-art, taxidermy art and cyborgs in contemporary art?  Traditionally within art history the focus has been on human culture as the fundamental underpinning for cultural behaviour and productions, consequently rendering animal and plant histories invisible from the analysis of artworks. In this thesis I attend to the bodies of animals, plants, and machines put in the context of the zooësis (places/contact zones) of these bodies as biopolitical aesthetics (aesthetic bodies/objects) in contemporary art. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Att möta sig själv och att bli den Andre : En intersektionell och postkolonial analys av Marissa Meyers Cinder och Scarlet

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Författare :Mikaela Olsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Cyborg; postkolonial teori; den Andre; intersektionalitet; Marissa Meyer; Cinder; Scarlet;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines power structures and oppression in the first two novels of the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Postcolonial theory and concepts as the Other/the other, and mimicry supplemented with an intersectional perspective are applied in the study. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Det tredje subjektet : Postmänskligt subjektsfinnande i The Murderbot Diaries, en analys av en cyborgs subjektsutvecklande utifrån posthumanistisk teori

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

    Författare :Anna Larsson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :subject; identity; Murderbot; posthumanism; posthuman; science fiction; Subjekt; The Murderbot Diaries; science fiction; identitet; kropp; posthumanism; postmänskligt;

    Sammanfattning : This paper analyses the process of achieving a subject of being in a posthuman character named Murderbot from the books called The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Science Fiction doesn’t have a natural place in Sweden academic discourse because it’s looked upon as a lesser form of literature. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Colonized Cyborgs : A feminist postcolonial perspective and intersectional exploration of feminized digital avatars in the West

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap

    Författare :Sara Margrét Sigurðardóttir; [2020]
    Nyckelord :CGI influencers and social media; feminist postcolonial theory; the Other; cyborgs; intersectionality; critical discourse analysis;

    Sammanfattning : Colonial legacies continue to impact representational practices in contemporary society. Social media platforms have provided a patriarchal marketplace in which female bodies become commodifiable products as ‘influencers’ and processes of racialisation and Othering are reproduced. LÄS MER