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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 55 uppsatser innehållade ordet posthuman.
16. Undoing Gender Interpellations in Role-Playing Videogame Spaces : The case of Cyberpunk 2077 as a case of resistance from a feminist post-constructionist perspective
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Sammanfattning : This Thesis is pertinent to the negotiations of sex, gender, and sexuality in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 and the narratives the gamer traverses while on the game, and aimed to add to the literature regarding the entanglements of gender and technology within the virtual world of the video games.This Thesis focused on investigating the potential of technocultural assemblages to undo gender (and racial) interpellations, and more specifically in regard to the assemblages that are formed between (post)human and avatar in first-person video games that allow the user to create their character with a great deal of freedom. LÄS MER
17. Human Rights in the Contemporary Context of Artificial Intelligence influencing Human Life - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INTERNATIONAL HUMANS RIGHTS AND COGNITIVE LIBERTY
Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis is an attempt to contribute to the understanding of the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), human cognition, and cognitive liberty, set in the context of contemporary life. I am exploring if there is a need to rethink the protection of human cognition, provided by the international human rights framework and if that framework is elastic enough to be able to provide sufficient protection of human cognition in the contemporary context of AI influencing human life. LÄS MER
18. "I'm Going Away Now" : Posthumanism and the End of the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : This essay explores the themes of posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. It analyses how the novel describes humanity’s effects on the earth in the novel and its human and non-human inhabitants, during the geological era that is called the Anthropocene. LÄS MER
19. 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 etnologiSammanfattning : 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
20. 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 medievetenskaperSammanfattning : 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
