Search for dissertations about: "Posthumanism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the word Posthumanism.

  2. 1. Are you ready for a wet live-in? : explorations into listening

    Author : Janna Holmstedt; Ylva Gislén; Per Nilsson; Jörgen Dahlqvist; Jesper Olsson; Kristina Lindström; Åsa Ståhl; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; artistic research; listening; situated practices; sound in art; expanded art; expanded scenography; media ecology; acousmatic orality; a orality; storytelling; interspecies communication; more-than-human relations; co-habitation; sensorial estrangement; posthumanism; parasites; play; technology; dolphins; sonic sensibility; transliteracy; voice; performativity; new materialism; Michel Serres; Karen Barad; John Lilly; oceans; wet live-in; Artistic research; Listening; Situated practices; Sound in art; Expanded art; Expanded scenography; Media ecology; Acousmatic orality; A orality; Storytelling; Interspecies communication; More-than-human relations; Co-habitation; Sensorial estrangement; Posthumanism; Parasites; Play; Technology; Dolphins; Sonic sensibility; Transliteracy; Voice; Performativity; New materialism; Michel Serres; Karen Barad; John Lilly; Oceans; Wet live-in;

    Abstract : Listen. If I ask you to listen, what is it that I ask of you—that you will understand, or perhaps obey? Or is it some sort of readiness that is requested? What occurs with a body in the act of listening? How do sound and voice structure audio-visual-spatial relations in concrete situations?This doctoral thesis in fine arts consists of six artworks and an essay that documents the research process, or rather, acts as a travelogue as it stages and narrates a series of journeys into a predominantly sonic ecology. READ MORE

  4. 2. Converging Human and Digital Bodies. Posthumanism, Property, Law

    Author : Jannice Käll; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; digitalization; information; innovation; intellectual property; knowledge; law; new materialism; personhood; posthumanism; property; subjectivity;

    Abstract : This thesis elaborates a theory for understanding how advanced capitalism commoditizes knowledge to an intensified degree simultaneously as it undoes the divide between human and nonhuman beings. In the text, such theory visibilizes how human and digital bodies are being produced as increasingly connected in innovation theory and recent business practices. READ MORE

  5. 3. Becoming Cyborg Composer : The Ecology of Digital Music Composition Didaktik

    Author : Jonas Asplund; Ketil Thorgersen; Cecilia Ferm Almqvist; Cecilia Wallerstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Music education; Music composition; Digitalisation; Posthumanism; Didaktik; ämnesdidaktik med inriktning mot de estetiska ämnenas didaktik; Teaching and Learning with Specialisation in the Arts Education;

    Abstract : The aim of this licentiate thesis is to explore the sociomaterial relationality of music composition education with digital hardware/software and its outcomes. Two studies were conducted interleaved as original articles in the thesis. READ MORE

  6. 4. According to whose will : The entanglements of gender & religion in the lives of transgender Jews with an Orthodox background

    Author : Oriol Poveda Guillén; Mia Lövheim; Lena Roos; Peter Nynäs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agential realism; entanglement; feminism; FTM; gender; intra-action; Jewish; Judaism; LGBTQ; MTF; non-binary; Orthodox; posthumanism; queer; religion; religiosity; religious change; religious practice; social constructionism; transgender; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Abstract : This study, the first in its scope on transgender religiosity, is based on in-depth biographical interviews with 13 transgender participants with a Jewish Orthodox background (currently and formerly Orthodox). The primary aim of the study has been to elucidate the entanglements of gender and religion in three periods of the participants’ lives: pre-transition, transition and post-transition. READ MORE

  7. 5. A new storm over the Naqab : The temporality of space in Israeli settler colonialism

    Author : Johanna Adolfsson; Anders Wästfelt; Ulf Jansson; Irus Braverman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Settler colonial studies; posthumanism; political ecology; transhumance; frontier; Negev Naqab; Israel Palestine; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography;

    Abstract : How can a posthumanist conceptualization of landscape, one that embraces temporality and practice, help us to better understand contemporary settler colonialism? This thesis explores this proposition through its analyses of the desire of the Israeli state to ‘settle’ the Naqab. The Naqab, an area located in the south of modern-day Israel and within its borders, is continuously narrated as under threat of being lost to the Palestinian Bedouins. READ MORE