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Epistemologies of (Un)sustainability in Swedish Crime Series Jordskott
2017
ABSTRACTEnvironmental themes have invaded Nordic TV crime series over the past few years. In this paper, the epistemological starting points of a Swedish series, Jordskott, are examined. The paper argues that the series criticizes the traditional humanist paradigm on which realistic crime narratives are based. It does so through the introduction of fantastic non-human beings with the help of which the boundaries of ‘nature’ and ‘human being’ are set mobile. In the series, subjectivities are rendered volatile and the humanist epistemological paradigm is questioned as a sustainable ground for defining what counts as a subject. Theoretically, the paper draws on posthumanist theory and ecocriti…
A lack of meaning?
2020
This article explores the ‘lack of meaning’ in contemporary society as a consequence of Western dualist thought paradigms and ontologies, via Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘reactive nihilism’ following the colloquial murder of God. The article then explores processual and new materialist approaches in the understanding of the lived and carnal self, arguing for immanent and senseful materiality as an ethical platform for religious, environmental, and societal solidarity for tomorrow. For the theoretical justification of the processual approach in understanding the enfleshed self, the article employs John Dupré’s processual approach in the philosophy of biology, as well as Astrida Neimani’s cri…
Ympäristöuhkia ja tunnistamatonta vierautta
2022
Tutkimme artikkelissamme ekologista ja affektiivista outouttamista suomalais-ruotsalaisessa spekulatiivista fiktiota ja Nordic noiria yhdistävässä televisiosarjassa White Wall (2020). Väitämme, että sarjan affektiivinen kokonaissävy muodostuu spekulatiivisen fiktion ja Nordic noirin lajityypillisten elementtien yhdistyessä, mikä rakentaa outouttavaa katsojakokemusta, jossa fiktiivisen maailman outous yhdistyy tosimaailman ekologisiin kysymyksiin. Tämä affektiivisen ja ekologisen outouttamisen yhdistelmä toimii lähtökohtana sarjan, etenkin sen keskeisen oudon ilmiön, valkoisen seinän, posthumanistiselle luennallemme. Hyödynnämme analyysissämme affektitutkimusta, eri genreteorioita sekä posth…
Elokuvan ja median tutkijat ja tekijät luontokysymysten äärellä
2022
Transumanesimo e postumanesimo alla luce della plasticità
2019
Postumanesimo e transumanesimo condividono la stessa idea: l’“uomo di oggi” è l’anticipazione di qualcosa di nuovo. I promotori di tali movimenti teorici sono convinti che la farmacologia, la nanotecnologia, la manipolazione genetica e le tecno-scienze plasmeranno una nuova umanità. L’essere umano si caratterizza, infatti, per un’elevata plasticità, concetto analizzato dalla pensatrice francese Catherine Malabou e che indica l’attitudine a dare e ricevere forma. Nella presente trattazione ci proponiamo di chiarire perché il principio di variazione plastica rappresenti il campo di battaglia fra la prospettiva teorica umanista e quella postumanista e, in secondo luogo, di delineare il diverso…
Children’s Play and Art Practices with Agentic Objects
2018
Material objects, ranging from used pieces of gum to superhero capes, are an essential part of children’s play and art practices. However, such items are rarely analyzed as a part of children’s social interaction. Onto-epistemological, scientific, and bio-technological developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have enhanced the interest in physical objects within many academic disciplines, and led some to consider if objects, too, can have social agency. In this article, I use Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory (ANT) to analyze three kinds of objects in the context of children’s play and art practices: (1) physical objects, (2) digital objects, and (3) transformative and ima…
Transhumanismo, posthumanismo, Antropoceno: notas sobre la humanidad vertiginosa
2019
Gothic Technologies in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland
2013
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Un post-humain post-apartheid ? Moxyland et Zoo Fiction de Lauren Beukes
2014
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Corps et corporalité dans Moxyland de Lauren Beukes
2014
International audience; Cet article explore les métamorphoses du corps et la façon dont, dans Moxyland, les frontières de celui-ci sont repoussées, redéfinies et modifiées. On s'intéresse à la fois au corps humain et au corps de l'oeuvre.