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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity
ABSTRACT This essay explores the enduring suspicion that psychedelic experiences are antithetical to the structural dynamic of modern societies through Hartmut Rosa's concepts of ‘resonance’ and ‘social acceleration’. Rosa's theoretical framework is particularly generative for studying the social meaning of contemporary psychedelia because it enables a
Mateo Sanchez Petrement
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Cultivation of Aesthetic Experience as the Aim of Environmental Art Education: A Deweyan View
Abstract Challenging the dichotomy of nature and culture is broadly seen as a key aim of environmental art education. Some of the literature on the topic focuses on the question of what metaphor for the relationship between nature and culture environmental art educators should adopt and attempt to convey to their students. In this article, I argue that
Iines Leinonen
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“Young Scholar[s] on the Beat”: Multimodal Composition as a Form of Critical AI Literacy Pedagogy
ABSTRACT “AI literacy” includes both technical competencies and critical engagement with social and ethical dimensions of AI, but literacy approaches are underrepresented in how we conceptualize and teach its core components. In this paper, we focus on youth multimodal composition as a form of AI literacy pedagogy, analyzing the video products and ...
Sarah K. Burriss +5 more
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From Apotheosis to Reverse Conversion: A Posthuman Reading of Euripides’ and Pasolini’s Medea
Medea is an ancient mythical figure who has caught the imagination of artists and authors across the centuries. In this essay, I focus on Euripides’ 5th-century BC eponymous tragedy and Pasolini’s 1969 cinematic adaptation.
Andrea Barcaro
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This article performs a posthumanist reading of Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital, 2019) focusing on how the game represents posthuman subjectivity. Outer Wilds uses two alien species to represent two conceptions of subjectivity: a transhumanism focused on ...
Simon Bowie
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Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Loving the Machine: A Transition to Posthuman Intimacy in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me (2019)
The growing interdependence between humans and machines has been a focal point in recent posthuman studies: scholars such as Rosi Braidotti (Posthuman Knowledge, 2019) have underlined the encroachment of technology on human beings and its subsequent ...
Adrien Spiga
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Des artefacts ironiques ? Relectures de La Possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq
The Possibility of an Island is a sophisticated display of literary artefacts, confronting a contemporary Frenchman autobiography to commentaries by post- human clones living two thousand years in the future.
Simon Bréan
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds
ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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