No / In her recent publication, Haraway (Haraway, D., (2003). The companion species manifesto: dogs, people, and significant otherness. Chicago, Prickly Paradigm Press.) extends her concept of the cyborg to explore how the figure of ¿companion species¿ can rethink the models of reality that traditionally underpin cultural research. This paper investigates the kind of consumption worlds and consumption relations the ontology of companion species suggests and what it offers in terms of understanding consumption in a post-human (and post-canine) consumer-behavior landscape. Following this, it proposes the concept of ¿companion-species consumption¿ (CSC) as a new ontology to extend interpretive research on consumers and their pets (Hirschman, E. C., (1994). Consumers and their animal companions. J Consum Res, 20 (3), 616¿632.; Holbrook, M.B., Stephens, D.L., Day, E., Holbrook, S.M. and Strazar, G., (2001). A collective stereographic photo essay on key aspects of animal companionship: the truth about dogs and cats. Academy of Marketing Science Review 1; AMS.; Belk, Russell W., (1996). Metaphoric relationships with pets Society & Animals: Social Scientific Studies of the Human Experience of Other Animals, vol. 4 (2), 121¿145.) and to reflect current theory of the consumer¿object relation. This research explores the potential of CSC through multi-site ethnography (Marcus, George E., (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: the emergence of multi-sited ethnography, Annu Rev Anthropol 95¿117.) of a trans-national, highly-networked community of Afghan hounds and their exhibitors. The paper examines how companion species emerge across a range of cultural sites and documents the consumption practices stemming from the dichotomies between them. The conclusions inform dog-related marketing activity, advance consumer-research insights into the practices of dog-related avocational consumer groups, and extend existing theory of the consumer¿object relation.

A presente dissertação apresenta um levantamento bibliográfico de alguns dos principais autores que analisam as possíveis fronteiras de diálogo entre a evolução das tecnologias de informação entre os séculos XX e XXI, com destaque para as descobertas no campo da física quântica aplicadas à informação e à computação, em busca do entendimento crítico desse universo de interdisciplinaridade para traçar, a partir da perspectiva dos estudos da comunicação, possibilidades a partir da construção de um processador quântico e o conseqüente surgimento de uma rede quântica de computadores, baseada em princípios multiversais, epistemológicos e evolutivos. Para tanto, pretendeu demonstrar tudo no Universo como informação, apontando os principais sintomas supermodernos que caracterizam a transição do Pós-Humano rumo a uma nova epistemologia, e fazendo uma releitura dos principais dilemas comunicacionais \"tautistas\" já sob um novo prisma, de acordo com os três rios propostos pelo Prof. Dr. Eugênio Bucci: evolução, linguagem e capital. / This dissertation presents a bibliography of some of the main authors which analyze the possible boundaries of dialogue between the evolution of information technologies from 20th to 21st Century, highlighting the discoveries in quantum physics applied to information and computing, in search of critical understanding of this interdisciplinarity universe to plot, under the perspective of communication studies, possibilities once a quantum processor is built and the consequent emergence of a quantum computers network, based on multiversal, epistemological and evolutionary principles. Therefore, we have intended to show everything in the universe as information, pointing the main hypermodern symptoms that characterize the transition from Post-Human towards a new epistemology, and making a reinterpretation of the main \"tautistic\" communication dilemma, according to the three rivers proposed by Prof. PhD. Eugenio Bucci: evolution, language and capital.

A presente dissertação apresenta um levantamento bibliográfico de alguns dos principais autores que analisam as possíveis fronteiras de diálogo entre a evolução das tecnologias de informação entre os séculos XX e XXI, com destaque para as descobertas no campo da física quântica aplicadas à informação e à computação, em busca do entendimento crítico desse universo de interdisciplinaridade para traçar, a partir da perspectiva dos estudos da comunicação, possibilidades a partir da construção de um processador quântico e o conseqüente surgimento de uma rede quântica de computadores, baseada em princípios multiversais, epistemológicos e evolutivos. Para tanto, pretendeu demonstrar tudo no Universo como informação, apontando os principais sintomas supermodernos que caracterizam a transição do Pós-Humano rumo a uma nova epistemologia, e fazendo uma releitura dos principais dilemas comunicacionais \"tautistas\" já sob um novo prisma, de acordo com os três rios propostos pelo Prof. Dr. Eugênio Bucci: evolução, linguagem e capital. / This dissertation presents a bibliography of some of the main authors which analyze the possible boundaries of dialogue between the evolution of information technologies from 20th to 21st Century, highlighting the discoveries in quantum physics applied to information and computing, in search of critical understanding of this interdisciplinarity universe to plot, under the perspective of communication studies, possibilities once a quantum processor is built and the consequent emergence of a quantum computers network, based on multiversal, epistemological and evolutionary principles. Therefore, we have intended to show everything in the universe as information, pointing the main hypermodern symptoms that characterize the transition from Post-Human towards a new epistemology, and making a reinterpretation of the main \"tautistic\" communication dilemma, according to the three rivers proposed by Prof. PhD. Eugenio Bucci: evolution, language and capital.

A new generation of feminist activists such as Amanda Gorman, educators like Lesley-Ann Noel and design researchers like Ece Canli are continuing to struggle facing resistance to change, due to patriarchal power dynamics and white supremacist attitudes. In the past years I have developed an understanding for feminist perspectives in design and am now wondering how to take this understanding with me into the professional design industry and design research, and how I can connect to people who are already there doing similar work. My entry point into this project is from a queer feminist point of view, for others it might be from a sustainability perspective. And even though we all come from different angles, we still all deal with questions of how discrimination in design can be dissolved. This project searches ways where to position oneself in the system as feminist designers, and where within design we can have an impact and how to expand this impact from an individual level to a systemic level. This project offers an exploration of how we can bring norm-critical conversations and anti-oppressive approaches to practise in the design industry. Through a decolonial queer feminist lens (Canli, 2017 and Vergès 2022) it is investigating issues of design‘s entanglement with systemic inequalities and values that are rooted in dominant cultural/societal perspectives and systems. All these oppressive systems are interconnected and intersectional (Crenshaw). They have in common that they privilege one group and make life harder for another group, based on specific characteristics. And then connect this to your perspective: With a feminist activist toolkit this project suggests one way of “staying with the trouble” and how to challenge binary regimes from within the design discipline. The activist toolkit is suggesting a form of practice to create connections which increase critical thinking on a reflective empowering journey to equity. It is one idea of how we can change design from margins to centre and develop feminist tactics for a more just design discipline. Furthermore, it assists dialogues to unfold concepts of how design embodies binaries in visuals, spatial, and other material practices and proposes a strengthening of allyship, to step by step bridging the gap between academia and industry, and between circular and linear thinkers.

This project critically reflects on the relationship between human culture and the ocean from a posthumanist perspective. Specifically, it explores how ocean data can facilitate a relationship of care towards the sea. While doing this, this thesis explores how those critical ideas can be introduced when working in industry and natural science. In this project I propose and demonstrate a method of Relational Participatory Design as a possible way to not only create design outcomes with others but also establish relationships between different actors, human or nonhu-man involved in the process.

This dissertation answers three questions relating to Jacques Derrida’s writings: why is Derrida concerned with human/animal difference? How should his deconstruction of this distinction be understood in the context of his broader philosophical project? Finally, do the answers to these questions complicate the belief that Derrida’s thought promotes a post-human ethics? Whereas Derrida’s sensitivity to the suffering of non-human creatures partially explains his interest in “the animal,” there are complex reasons for why he frequently returns to interrogate this theme–reasons that can only be understood by first clarifying core features of his philosophy. I maintain that what obsesses Derrida in virtually all of his writings is how a longstanding, “metaphysical” view of human consciousness proves deconstructable. Following Derrida, I term this view “living presence”–the belief that experience happens presently to beings who are present to themselves. In undermining this view, Derrida reimagines experience as what I term “survival,” where the very things traditionally thought to be foreign to human subjective life are required for experience to carry on happening. Importantly, the fact that philosophers repeatedly describe human consciousness in terms of presence is not simply an error. It is rather an effort to preserve the living present against the threat that everything opposed to presence plays in its very possibility. This explains why human/animal difference is so strenuously affirmed throughout the history of Western thought on Derrida’s view. Animals are not simply inferior kinds of beings compared to humans; there is rather thought to be an essential difference between the two. Whereas humans encounter themselves and their world presently, animal are utterly instinctual, reactional, and non-present to themselves. However, by deconstructing the human/animal distinction, Derrida reveals that those features traditionally associated with animals are necessary for any life, human or otherwise, to exist. For this reason, “the animal” is a “pharmakon”: it both sustains and upsets a long-held understanding of what we uniquely are. In my final analysis, I examine whether my reading of Derrida’s thought is compatible with a non-human ethics. I do so in two steps: first, I examine a prominent reading of Derrida’s thought that contends that it is. For a large number of thinkers in “animal studies,” Derrida’s thought is aligned with the philosophy Emmanuel Levinas in important respects: whereas Derrida rejects Levinas’ anthropocentrism, he retains the core of Levinas’ ethics. However, I argue that the conditions that Derrida believes make life possible undermine this reading of his work. In the end, I argue that if deconstruction is an ethics, it is so only because it promotes “life” understood in the sense developed in this dissertation. Yet we must be mindful of what deconstruction does not provide in the way of an ethics: on the one hand, any standard of ethical belief is deconstructible. On the other hand, deconstruction does not necessarily promote a more inclusive and compassionate future. Whereas it can do so, it might also inaugurate a future that is less inclusive and more savage. This is, I argue, precisely what cannot be known. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This dissertation argues that a diversity of epistemology within the field of rhetoric and composition can encourage Imagining as a strategy to negotiate the conundrums and binaries of the post-everything era, especially in negotiating the social presence of online learning. I trace Imagination from Enlightenment Pedagogy, which privileged the individual, unteacheable genius, to the conflation of invention and Imagination and the disappearance of both in current-traditional, modern, and postmodern pedagogy. Underlying this disappearance seems to be a distrust of Imagination, as exemplified by Kenneth Burke. I suggest that strategy of Imagining, rather than the faculty of Imagination, is needed—a move that is congruent with the active agency suggested by Marilyn Cooper. I also suggest that the theoretical basis for Imagining as a bridge can be found in the “Thirdness” of Charles Sanders Pierce. Following Coleridge, I suggest that four means of knowing serve as foundations for Imagining: the group, the text, knowledgeable others, and the spirit. These four means can give the field of rhetoric and composition a diversity of epistemologies, and these terms provide the means to more fully describe our complex, partial, and recursive ways of knowing in the twenty-first century. These ways of knowing are especially necessary in online learning where teachers and students may only “see” each other through their words. I argue that these means of knowing enhance Imagining and that a unsyllabus is a way to implement Imagining.

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abstract: Situated within seminal debates on the questions of liberation and justice viewed from the postcolonial context, this dissertation evaluates freedom narratives from both sides of the colonial divide during the period of high imperialism. Creating a transnational grouping of three diverse historical figures, E. M. Forster, M. K. Gandhi, and James Joyce, I argue for similarities in these writers’ narrative construction of “freedom” against colonial modernity. I argue that despite these writers’ widely disparate historical and cultural determinations, which uniquely particularize each of their freedom formulas as well as freedom “ideals” – the ideal of culture for Forster, renunciation for Gandhi and aesthetic apprehension for Joyce, these writers conceive of a commensurate/globally related form of “freedom” as postcoloniality and demonstrate cosmopolitan ambition. I also argue that the global form of postcoloniality they each practice can only be articulated through a close attention to each of their specific and local difference. The key contribution of the dissertation is to establish a new significance of the notion of fetishism for postcolonial studies, from both historical and theoretical perspectives. From a background that emphasizes the primacy of the concept of fetishism in its historical evolution within colonizing narratives of various Western discourses, especially fetish’s constitutive role in Enlightenment philosophy’s othering narrative of “primitive” natives, the work foregrounds a novel theoretical and narrative insight that the fetish demonstrates a unique potential to articulate/embody freedom as post-coloniality. Through a detailed critical analysis of each freedom narrative, I demonstrate how the clashes of particular contradictory cultural ideologies, in fact, determine each freedom narrative and how these contradictions are projected onto and galvanized by a fetish object(s). The work extends the ideas of Sigmund Freud, William Pietz, Homi Bhabha, Anne McClintock and Jacques Derrida on fetishism. Employing the framework of fetishism it brings into view similarities among the said three writers’ definition and practice of freedom. The work weighs in on critical debates between Marxist and Post-structural camps in postcolonial studies and proposes a new form of cosmopolitanism. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation English 2017