This article examines the process of developing a posthuman opera, Michel van der Aa’s Upload (2021), from the perspective of a rehearsal ethnography. Proposing a rehearsal-oriented ontology of ...opera, this article avoids discussions of the performance and even the music itself to focus on stages of rehearsing with a virtual body. As a participant-observer, I examine how the rehearsal space of Upload evolves into a laboratory that negotiates receptacles of digital data with congenital bodies. Dissecting the avatar as a compound of (non)human agents, I interrogate how rehearsing a virtual body reconfigures operatic production dynamics. The operatic rehearsal processes repetition and connection, and co-evolves together with the technologies of production. With the example of various agents’ interactions during the rehearsal, I illustrate how the figure of the avatar reproduces Upload out of canonical rehearsal practices by recalibrating the connections between opera’s agents. These elaborations lead to an understanding of van der Aa as a composer who recalibrates himself into the posthuman form of an opera production.
Proximity and tourism in the Anthropocene Rantala, Outi; Höckert, Emily; Anttila, Sara ...
Annals of tourism research,
March 2024, 2024-03-00, Letnik:
105
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•Demands reconsideration and transformation of tourism due to planetary crises•Extends the idea of community and wellbeing to non-human nature•Calls for relational, proximate approaches for ...reconfiguring tourism theory
The Inexhaustible Van der Voet, Rosanne
Journal of Posthumanism,
03/2023, Letnik:
3, Številka:
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Adopting a hybrid, creative-critical approach, this article explores how Rosi Braidotti’s notion of posthuman subjectivity based on a negotiation between humans, zoe (nonhumans), geo (earth) and ...techno (technologies) can be put into practice creatively. Against the background of the low-lying South Holland coast, where sandscapes based on human-nonhuman collaborations prevent coastal erosion, I trace the various voices in the landscape complementing and interrupting each other. Shifting from a human perspective into the perspectives of zoe, geo and techno, the narration of this piece finally coalesces to form a new ‘we’ which represents this posthuman subjectivity. Imagining alternate futures based on this inclusive ‘we,’ this piece explores what a collaboration based on a collective posthuman subjectivity can mean in practice.
This issue of Between aims to investigate the phenomenology of simulacra and their range of functions (conceptual, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and in the media). What is meant here by ‘simulacrum’ ...is any artificial creature or phantasm that imitates or replicates the outward form and/or behaviour of living beings, especially human beings. By doing so, it blurs the boundaries between life and artifice, human and non-human. As a notion, ‘simulacrum’ covers a variety of hybrid, liminal and often spectral figures populating the premodern, modern and contemporary imagination: from statues to puppets, from golems to homunculi, from automata to robots, from cyborgs to avatars and, ultimately, Artificial Intelligence. The case studies collected here lay the groundwork for an inquiry wherein literary works are assessed from both the point of view of textual analysis and in connection with the compelling relevance that the theme of simulacra has been gaining in the cultural sphere, including contemporary debates on the ‘trans-‘ and ‘posthuman’.
The main purpose of any degree, in any institution of higher learning is to create graduates with competent knowledge and abilities to deal with vital challenges that affect the country; any ...deviations to this purpose requires a review and rethinking of the whole system, such as a curriculum transformation. Grounded in a critical post humanist paradigm, qualitative reflective semi-structured interviews were held with 12 graduates to ascertain their experiences with the Bachelor of Indigenous Knowledge System (BIKS) programme delivery and content during their 4 years stay at the University of Venda. Responses from graduates indicated that BIKS’s strength depend within its multidisciplinary method. It also exposed the graduates to the work environment through integrated learning program, although, there were also sentiments that such exposure was insufficient and at times irrelevant. The experience of the students provided insights into what could be the focus of the revision of the curriculum to ensure global citizenship competencies, employability and or entrepreneurial acumen amongst graduates. One of the challenges of IKS, that the students drew attention to, was a lack of the curriculum’s capacity to beneficiate, as its focus was not sufficiently business oriented. Work-based learning and other forms of exposure might have to be revamped to enhance entrepreneurial skills and to ensure that students learn how to create thriving IKS inspired businesses to create employment opportunities amongst others.
This interview between Francesca Ferrando (New York University) and Asijit Datta (University of Calcutta) is an extended and exhaustive effort to weigh the pressing concerns of posthuman life, death, ...and philosophy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. Philosophical discourse on matters related to dualism, humanism, anthropocentrism, during a phase when exposed human bodies are susceptible to a deadly, mutating virus itself, warrants some paradoxical attention. There has never been a more suitable age and a period to discuss the onto-epistemological anxieties against the background of biotechnological advancements. Akin to an inverse ouroboros, the latest medical equipment or a favourable vaccine for diseases is part of the reparation process undertaken to balance out the damage perpetrated by capitalism. Questions from the interviewer traverse topics involving the Anthropocene, non-human animals/others, genetic mutations, ethnic crises, ethical response towards the dead, posthumanism as spirituality, and the posthuman multiverse.
This paper argues for an expanded field of inquiry to conceptualise young children in museums. Drawing on Murris' 2016. The Post-Human Child: Educational Transformation Through Philosophy with ...Picturebooks. London: Routledge analysis of childhood constructions, we discuss how cognitive and socio-constructivist models of the child dominate childhood and museum studies. We argue for the potential of Murris' figure of the posthuman child to reconceptualise children in museums. This perspective offers a greater focus on the potency of objects themselves, and the animacy of the non-human aspects of the museum. It is also underpinned by a theoretical shift from representation to non-representation Anderson, B., and P. Harrison. (2010) "The Promise of Non-representational Theories." In Taking-place: Non-representational Theories and Geography. Farnham: Ashgate, presenting us with new ways to address questions such as 'what does that mean?' when we observe children's learning in museums. Working with data that has proved resistant to interpretation across a range of research projects, what we call 'sticky data', we elaborate on three themes emerging from this reconceptualisation: vibrancy, repetition and movement.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Fantasy and science fiction are often intertwined, and tend to influence one another. Tolkien’s Orcs, and more specifically, his Uruk-hai, are genetically modified organisms, which are studded with ...metal to improve them and could have been inspired by Asimovian robots. Overall, those humanicide and sanguinary creatures are evocative of the Gothic tradition. It seems that the cinematographic adaptations by Peter Jackson, mostly based on John Howe’s illustrations, have brought their demonization to a paroxysm.
Transparent Minds explores the intersection between neuroscience and science fiction stories. Paul Matthews expertly analyses the narratives of humans and nonhumans from Mary Shelley to Kazuo ...Ishiguro across 200 years of the genre. In doing so he gives lucid insight into the meaning of existence and self-awareness. Rigorously researched and highly accessible, Matthews argues that psycho-emotional science fiction writers both imitate and inform alien and post-human consciousnesses through exploratory narratives and metaphor. Drawing from a diverse range of scholars and critics, Matthews explores topics such as psychonarration and neuroaesthetics, to create a thoughtful and cogent argument. By synthesising concepts from philosophy, neuroscience, and literary theory, Matthews posits the potential for science fiction to bridge the gap in understanding between AI and human minds. Given the recent advancements in AI technology, Matthews’ timely discussion enters the speculative realm of sentient technology and postcyborg ethics. The work constitutes a major contribution to cross-disciplinary perspectives on alien and posthuman psychology, that engages with future states of existence in both ourselves and the machines we create. Transparent Minds will be of interest to innovators, authors, and science fiction enthusiasts alike.
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