Sökning: "posthuman"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 55 uppsatser innehållade ordet posthuman.

1. 21. Defining the Voice of Montreal: Exploring Possibilities for Human-Machine Companionship

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Författare :Malik Dehbi Talbot; [2020]
   Nyckelord :critical posthumanism; artificial intelligence; virtual assistant; tourism; science and technology studies; human-machine relationships; voicebot; labor relations; companion; sociomaterial assemblage; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the possibility for (re)defining the relationship between humans and robots with conversational interfaces. It does so by looking at the creation process of a voice and text-based virtual assistant for tourists from the perspective of critical posthumanism and posthuman performativity. LÄS MER

3. 22. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Författare :Christina Tente; [2020]
   Nyckelord :voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. LÄS MER

4. 23. "Det är lite ge och ta" : Google och folkbibliotekarieuppdraget

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

   Författare :Linnéa Johansson; Lena Persson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Library and information studies; Google; public librarians; information seeking; information technology; Actor-Network Theory; sociotechnical approach; qualitative interviews; Cultural Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this master’s thesis is to gain a better understanding of how public librarians describe their interactions with Google Search, as well as their opinions on both the company and the search engine Google. The main focus of interest is the information seeking process that public librarians perform in response to questions from library users, and the alternatives and choices, such as different databases and search engines, that are available to them in these situations. LÄS MER

5. 24. The Human Non-Human Boundary in 'Dune'
 – An Ontological Reading through a Comparative Nietzschean and Transhuman Framework

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Kiti Misha; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Frank Herbert; Dune; Science Fiction; Nietzsche; Overhuman; Transhumanism; Posthuman; Transhumanism; Human; Nonhuman;

   Sammanfattning : In Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga, we find a transhumanist and Nietzschean argument about the evolution of humans achieved as a result of the triggering effect of the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. I claim that the metamorphoses of the selected characters reflect the central tenants of the transformation of Nietzsche’s overhuman, or transhumanism’s posthuman. LÄS MER

7. 25. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Författare :Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. LÄS MER