Sökning: "new materialism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 51 uppsatser innehållade orden new materialism.

1. 1. "The Uphill AI Contract Challenge The Intra-Active Task: Reimagining Contracts"

   Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Författare :Filip Seiborg Wikström; [2024-02-16]
   Nyckelord :AI; Contract Law; New Materialism; Karen Barad; Intra-Action; Spacetimemattering; Ethico-Onto-Epistem-Ology; Cartesian-Newtonian paradigms; Antimethodology; Agency; Machine Learning;

   Sammanfattning : The traditional contract theories are insufficient to handle the challenges Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently causing and will continue to cause to contract law. These challenges involve problems concerning the subject/object divide, agency, the embedding of legal code into interactive programming code, and ethical aspects concerning the transfer of power away from lawyers. LÄS MER

3. 2. Weird Digitization: Alternative Strategies for Archival Materials

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

   Författare :Christa Shusko; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Digital Humanities; Digitization; Archival materials; Photography; Material culture.;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis draws on the theory of new materialism to posit an alternative approach to cultural heritage digitization. Modifying the method of critical digitization and synthesizing it with the method of thick description for the study of damaged cultural heritage, this thesis proposes the method weird digitization which seeks to challenge traditional selection criteria for cultural heritage digitization as well as challenging practices of mass digitization. LÄS MER

4. 3. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart

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

   Författare :Rebecca Sonesson; [2023-07-07]
   Nyckelord :Horror; Clive Barker; gothic literature; The Hellbound Heart; literary studies; body horror; new materialism; splatterpunk; the weird;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. LÄS MER

5. 4. Living in an Immaterial World: An exploratory study on consumer value perceptions in metaverse settings

   D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Författare :Linn Henriksson; Ellen Svärdh; [2023]
   Nyckelord :metaverse; consumption-value theory; value perceptions; virtual consumption;

   Sammanfattning : As sung by Madonna, "we are living in a material world" underscored by the consumption of physical goods. Beyond the glitz of materialism lies the grand problem of overconsumption, and correspondingly overproduction, of the world's finite resources. LÄS MER

7. 5. Learning with fire, water and sun: A post-qualitative inquiry into Swedish friluftsliv education

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession

   Författare :Karin Isaksson; [2022-06-30]
   Nyckelord :Swedish friluftsliv education; new materialism; material-discursive entanglements; sustainability education; embodied learning; post-qualitative inquiry;

   Sammanfattning : Aim: The aim of this study was to empirically investigate the emerging material-discursive entanglements between humans and more-than-humans within Swedish friluftsliv education, and argue for the ways in which these create didactical and pedagogical opportunities for teachers and students to contribute to a more sustainable world. Theory: The research was theoretically framed within a new materialist ontology focusing on the entanglement between matter and meaning and the configuration of phenomena as material-discursive (Barad, 2007). LÄS MER