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1	Beyond Extractive Ethics: A Naturalcultural Study of Foragers and the Plants They Harvest Slodki, Mark 15 December 2021 (has links) We live in a time marked by ecological precarity and crisis. Critical scholars of the Anthropocene have identified extractivism and its associated ideology of human exceptionalism as driving forces behind these crises. This thesis joins a call to develop naturalcultural theory – ways of conceptualizing the more-than-human world and our place in it as humans that do not rely on longstanding distinctions between “Nature” and “Culture.” Moreover, scholars and activists have clearly outlined the urgent need for us to change the way we live with nonhumans. As a step towards such new ways of living with nonhumans, in this project I study how foragers foster multispecies ethics through their encounters with nonhumans, using multispecies ethnography as my primary methodology. In this thesis, I develop a theoretical framework through which to understand forager-plant interactions, informed by my experiences in the field interviewing and observing foragers as they harvest plants and directly studying the plants that my participants frequently interacted with. I tentatively propose a distinction between extractive and non-extractive approaches to foraging. Overall, I suggest viewing plants and humans as living-persons who are tangled in a field of socioecological relations to one another. Through partial and intermittent encounters, they become contaminated and adopt new habits that affect their future interactions with other living-persons. This has important implications for how we conceive of ethics as only incorporating nonhumans as objects of ethical consideration rather than ethical subjects in their own right. Foraging Natureculture Multispecies ethnography Human exceptionalism Human non-human relationships Personhood Multispecies ethics Non-human nationhood
2	The Habitat : A Posthumanist Design Project for Making Kin with Nonhuman Hafazoglu, Betyul January 2022 (has links) ‘the habitat’ is a Design+Change project which originates from the will to create positive change in the current situation of climate and ecological emergency. The design project takes the Anthropocene and the materialization of nonhumans as starting point and develops further around the possibilities of forming non-anthropocentric and nonhuman-centered mentalities and world-making processes. It aims to highly emphasize the human dependence on nonhuman existence and well-being. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of the project is to de-center humans and challenge the human exceptionalist mentality. In order to achieve that; practices of making kin with nonhumans are explored and practiced throughout the project. This Design+Change project builds its framework within the theories of posthumanism by Braidotti (2013) (2017) and Barad (2008), the vitality of matter by Bennett (2010) and gets inspiration from multispecies ethnography and design, discusses the possibilities of making kin (Haraway, 2016) with nonhumans. Building on the theoretical framework, my own lived experiences of sharing my domestic environment and my attempts to interact, and interconnect with fungi persons, strive to show interdependencies of life, the assemblages weaved in intertangled lives of humans and nonhumans and to overcome human exceptionalist mindsets and lifestyles. ‘the habitat’ seeks to also question the dichotomies of nature/culture, animate/inanimate. The discussion of the nonhuman agency has also been essential throughout the design project. ‘the habitat’ displays a journey, an intimate autoethnographic mental expedition, rather than being a monolithic and finished product. It presents my bare attempts and generates discussions from them. At the end of the project, it wraps itself up in the form of an archive, a map, and a record of the journey for the audience to walk through. climate emergency nonhuman agency posthumanism multispecies design human exceptionalism Design Design
3	Sobre evolução biológica e antropocentrismo : uma discussão histórico-filosófica seguida de uma investigação do tema entre discentes e docentes do Ensino Superior da UFABC Rosa, Gustavo Rodrigues January 2017 (has links) Orientador: Prof. Dr. Charles Morphy Dias dos Santos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa De Pós-Graduação em Ensino, História, Filosofia das Ciências e Matemática, 2017. / Este trabalho insere uma discussão histórico-filosófica sobre antropocentrismo e evolução biológica. A presente pesquisa tratou de sintetizar afirmações e reafirmações histórico-culturais do ser humano como sendo excepcional em relação ao mundo natural, e coloca-las à luz do evolucionismo, que, por sua vez, reposiciona o Homo sapiens como sendo apenas mais um animal no ramo de diversificação da árvore da vida, desconstruindo excepcionalismos humanos baseados na abstração de tradições intelectuais antropocêntricas. Em seguida o presente trabalho visou traçar um perfil dos estudantes e professores da UFABC acerca de percepções sobre a `evolução biológica¿ e a `seleção natural¿, visando não apenas diagnosticar o nível de conhecimento sobre tais em uma amostra universitária, bem como estudar se esse nível de conhecimento tem relação com posições antropocêntricas sobre o mundo natural. O teste foi criado via ferramenta de formulário da Google Inc e aplicado online através de disparos em listas de emails e rede social. O público de discentes e docentes do ensino superior da UFABC foi de graduação e pós-graduação alcançando todas as áreas disponibilizadas pelos cursos da universidade. O teste alcançou um total de 243 respondentes, dos quais são 166 estudantes e 77 professores. Os resultados mostraram que, na Universidade Federal do ABC, as reações do público-alvo demonstram um bom índice de compreensão científica sobre o evolucionismo. A análise das respostas dadas foi capaz de parcialmente responder a um dos objetivos centrais deste trabalho, o de discutir se há uma relação entre a compreensão indevida da teoria da evolução e concepções antropocêntricas sobre o mundo natural. Em linhas gerais, tal relação foi evidenciada. Ela fica mais clara a partir dos cruzamentos das respostas, onde foi capaz de identificar certas lacunas de formação e um baixo entendimento sobre conceitos centrais da teoria evolutiva. O desenvolvimento deste trabalho propõe ainda que o potencial reflexivo trazido pela compreensão da evolução biológica poderia ser mais evidenciado no ensino de ciência em seus diferentes níveis. / This work presents a historical-philosophical discussion about anthropocentrism and biological evolution. The research synthesized historical-cultural statements about human beings always seen as exceptional in relation to the natural world. It puts these assumptions in contrast to evolutionism, which, in turn, positions the Homo sapiens as simply another animal branch in the tree of life. The debate deconstructs human exceptionalisms based on abstract anthropocentric intellectual traditions. This work also aimed at tracing UFABC¿s students and teachers profiles about theirs perceptions on 'biological evolution' and 'natural selection' subjects, aiming not only to diagnose the level of knowledge on evolutionary theory within a university population-sample, but also to study if the level of knowledge on evolution in the sample is related to anthropocentric positions over the natural world. The test was created via Google Inc form and applied online after social networking and sending the form to email lists. The target was teachers and undergraduate / graduated students from UFABC, reaching all areas available through the university courses. There was a total of 243 respondents ¿ 166 students and 77 teachers. The results showed that at UFABC there is a good scientific understanding on evolutionism. The analysis of the entries given was able to partially respond one of the core goals of this work, which was to realize if there is a relationship between improper understanding of evolutionary theory and anthropocentric conceptions about the natural world. In general terms, such a relationship has been highlighted. It becomes clearer by crossing the answers, and allows us to identify certain educational gaps and low understanding on central concepts of evolutionary theory. The development of this work also proposes that the potential of existencial reflection brought by the understanding of biological evolution could be more evident in science education at its different levels. EVOLUÇÃO ANTROPOCENTRISMO EXCEPCIONALISMO HUMANO EVOLUTION ANTHROPOCENTRISM HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM
4	Icke-verbal kommunikation mellan människa och djur i litteratur : En interdisciplinär studie om hur David Wroblewskis The Story of Edgar Sawtelle rekonstruerar förhållandet mellan djuriskhet och funktionshinder Andreasson, Linnéa January 2018 (has links) In reading The story of Edgar Sawtelle, this essay applies posthuman studies with animal studies and disability studies to analyse how the communication between species occur and how boundaries are expanded. Non-verbal language is closely examined and argued to be just as viable as verbal language in the making of relationships and subjects in literature. By applying posthumanism, biological research and a non-anthropocentric way of thinking one can evolve from the notion that humans are the only subjects which matter, something that has been verified because non-human animals never have been given a voice or an acknowledgment of a language. What happens in a novel when the main protagonist is lacking the ability to speak verbally, when verbal language is what has constructed human exceptionalism over all the other species? / Denna uppsats tillämpar posthumanistiska studier med djurstudier och funktionshinder-studier för att analysera hur kommunikationen mellan arter äger rum och expanderar gränser i David Wroblewskis roman The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Icke-verbalt språk undersöks och argumenteras vara lika betydande som verbalt språk vid skapandet av relationer och subjekt i litteratur. Genom att applicera posthumanism, biologisk forskning och ett icke-antropocentriskt sätt att tänka kan man avveckla tanken om att människan är det enda subjekt som räknas, detta är något som enbart verifierats eftersom icke-mänskliga djur aldrig fått någon agens eller bekräftande att de har rätten till en röst. Vad händer i en roman när protagonisten saknar förmågan till verbalt språk, när det verbala språket är central som verkning i mänsklig exceptionalism? posthumanism animal studies disability studies posthumanist linguistics David Wroblewski Cary Wolfe anthropocentrism anthropomorphism human exceptionalism posthumanism djurstudier funktionshinder-studier posthumanistisk lingvistik David Wroblewski Cary Wolfe antropocentrism mänsklig exceptionalism Languages and Literature Språk och litteratur
5	Diskurs trvale udržitelného rozvoje a jeho dopad na odbornou veřejnost / The Discourse of Sustainable Development and its Impact on Academic Public BUCHTELE, Roman January 2018 (has links) The aim of this diploma thesis is to determine, whether the discourse of sustainable development (SD) has any impact on the academic public concerning the knowledge of the topics and principles of SD, or whether it has impact on the value orientation. A group of university students of economics was chosen for the purposes of this thesis as an instance of the academic public. The thesis consists of two main parts: the theoretical part and the analytical part. The theoretical part defines the theoretical base of following topics: the development of the human attitude towards the Earth; the warning messages that preceded the revolutionary year 1987; the basis of the sustainable development; selected topics and principles of the environmental pillar of sustainability; the environmental education; environmental sociology and the new environmental paradigm. The methods applied in the analytical part of this thesis are based on the quantitative approach, NEP and HEP, the environmental sociology. The overview of the discourse of SD from the point of view of the environmental pillar allows for the specific research the operationalization of the knowledge of the topics and principles of SD including the readiness to use those principles.
6	Maschinenphilologie Hiller, Moritz 13 July 2021 (has links) "Maschinenphilologie" – das heißt: Fahndung nach dem Subjekt der Philologie. Literaturarchive, Textkritiken und Digital Humanities sind heute Schauplätze digitaler Medien, die nicht nur den passiven Gegenstand, sondern das methodische Werkzeug von Philologie abgeben. Ihre Wirkmacht nötigt zur Frage, wie eine bestimmte Maschinengattung die Prämissen, Praktiken und Institutionen dieses seit 1800 humanistisch geprägten Wissenschaftsfeldes affiziert. Und damit auch seinen geschichtsträchtigen Subjektbegriff: Denn wo nicht mehr nur oder primär Menschen, sondern auch ihr maschinelles Andere schreibt, liest, archiviert und ediert, ist die Logosliebe, mit N. Katherine Hayles zu sprechen, längst posthumanistisch geworden. Grund genug, dieses Beziehungsgeflecht von Menschen und Medien noch einmal abseits von allen Humanexzeptionalismen zu denken: Philologie am heutigen Tag ist immer auch Maschinenphilologie. / This dissertation is in pursuit of the elusive agent of philology. Be it literary archives which curate digital remains, textual criticism which processes computer software, or the Digital Humanities as an alleged new paradigm of humanities, digital media poses particular challenges for philology today—not only as an object of study, but also as a methodological tool. "Machine Philology" confronts these challenges, asking more generally how a particular type of machinery affects the premises, practices, and institutions of a scientific field informed by traditional humanism. Central to the project is an inquiry into the notion of subjectivity. For, where not only human beings, but also their machinic Other, reads, writes, archives, and edits, it is to be argued that philology has—following N. Katherine Hayles—become posthumanistic. The dissertation uses this as an opportunity for a fundamental reconsideration of the entangled network of human beings and media that philology can be described as, evacuated of any human-exceptionalism: Philology today is machine philology. Maschine Philologie Friedrich Kittler Vilém Flusser Digital Humanities Singularität Digitale Medien Digitalität Computer Subjekt Subjektivität Schreibszene Schreib-Szene Archiv Literaturarchiv Editorik Editionsphilologie Nachlass Textkritik Software Emulation Humanismus Anthropozentrismus Humanexzeptionalismus Posthumanismus Medientheorie Mediengeschichte Medienarchäologie Machine Philology Friedrich Kittler Vilém Flusser Digital Humanities Singularity Digital Media Digitality Computer Subject Subjectivity Writing Scene Archive Literary Archive Scholarly Editing Editorial Philology Textual Criticism Software Emulation Humanism Anthropocentrism Human Exceptionalism Posthuman Posthumanism Media Theory Media History Media Archaeology 924 Philologen und Lexikografen AP 15942 AP 15950 AP 15972 AP 15974 EC 1200 AP 18100 ddc:924

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