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The Vulnerable Posthuman: The Existential Crisis in Taiwanese Queer Science Fiction
Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone LiteratureThis essay examines the portrayal of posthuman vulnerability in Taiwanese queer science fiction (SF), focusing on works by Chi Ta-wei (紀大偉, 1972-) and Hong Ling (洪凌, 1971-).
Hsin-Hui Lin
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To examine how artificial intelligence (AI) influences the definition, enactment and preservation of person‐centred fundamental care in healthcare contexts, and to develop a complementary framework that positions care as a design constraint. Design Theoretically informed case analysis.
Amina Silva +2 more
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Posthumanism and Cybernetic Art: An Esthetic Exploration of Technology and Human Identity
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Posthumanism is a contemporary intellectual movement that redefines the relationship between humans, technology, biology, and culture. While questioning the traditional humanist perspective that places humans at the center of the universe, it also examines the transformative effects of technology on human identity.
Evren Kavukcu
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Bioart: Transhuman and Posthuman Performance
Revista Teknokultura, 2012 For over a century, science fiction has gripped the attention of audiences world-wide, with some of its most successful achievements furnishing the world with utopian and dystopian narratives about the progress of science and the limits of humanity's ...
Andy Miah
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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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Cogent Arts & HumanitiesAlthough set in a posthuman and predominantly metropolitan setting, Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun deeply engages in postcolonial narrative discourse and its implications. This paper examines Ishiguro’s postcolonial stance in the novel.
Khaled Abkar Alkodimi
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Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2015 In this article I argue that the meaning of presence in journalism is taking on new forms as the photographer, bystander or citizen journalist may be absent in body but remains present in digital form and interconnected with that technology.
Bolette Blaagaard
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Orbis 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
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Philosophical Analysis of Posthuman
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2010 The article reviews current approaches to рosthuman: transhumanism, sinergiynaya anthropology, philosophical anthropology, and others, a comparative analysis of two possible definitions of the рosthuman: posthuman as a creature that occurs as a result of
L E Motorina
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