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Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories

open access: yesRelations, 2016
Our existence, the existence of our species and its cognitive evolution, is far from being pure and confined within secure margins. Starting from mitochondria and all the way up, the human is constantly mixed with the nonhuman.
Serenella Iovino   +2 more
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Considering students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes in the teaching of Swedish

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study investigated how teachers of Swedish as a second language in Finland perceive they enhance their students' language learning by considering the students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes. This study was conducted in a context where most students were disinclined to study Swedish.
Toni Mäkipää, Sara Karhu
wiley   +1 more source

Making with the Trouble: Un/Enfolding Posthuman Participants with Young People in Creative Post‐Qualitative Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how ‘what matters’ can surface in multisensory arts‐informed projects as ways for young people to survive and stay with gender and sexuality troubles that are always more than theirs. Situated in an ex‐mining post‐industrial locale, we make an agential cut in a longitudinal research and engagement project called Unboxing ...
EJ Renold
wiley   +1 more source

The Art and Design of Collaborative Autoethnography: Exploring Disciplinary, Methodological and Collaborative Complexity in Education Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract In collaborative research, the ways in which complexity is acknowledged, negotiated and managed actively shape the nature of the complexity that is created and experienced. However, reports on complex projects seldom detail how challenges relating to research design or execution were navigated, nor discuss how frictions or tensions might ...
Suzanne Crowley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Tale of Two Sophias: A Proposal for Critical Posthuman Youth Work, and Why We Need It

open access: yesYouth, 2023
This paper begins by recounting a tale of two Sophias: a humanoid robot and an ‘illegal’ baby immigrant. The tale of two Sophias locates my initial ideas for reflecting on how critical posthumanism might contribute to youth work theory and practice.
Maria Pisani
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“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
wiley   +1 more source

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Identity, Isolation, and Hope in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Consciousness and Spiritual Redemption in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

open access: yesMedaad
Modern speculative fiction increasingly explores how artificial intelligence affects identity, social connectedness, and spirituality. Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro is an intriguing exploration of posthuman subjectivity and ethical concerns
Raed Nafea Farhan
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DIFFRACTING HYBRID DIDAKTIK – RELATIONAL, FLUID, AND FRAGMENTED DIGITAL WRITING TUTORING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

open access: yesDigital Culture & Education, 2023
The study contributes to the nascent digital academic writing tutoring field by applying posthuman thinking while investigating intimate socio-material relations during a participatory action research project. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021), on-
Charlotta Hilli, Sofia Jusslin
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