5 results on '"sympoiesis"'
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2. Towards a theory of algae sympoiesis in performance : cooking-with ecologies
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Blissett, Sarah and Hill, Leslie
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579.8 ,Ecology ,Performance ,Sympoiesis ,Algae ,Food ,Cooking ,Becoming-with ,Intra-action ,Barad ,Haraway ,New Materialism ,Posthumanism ,Climate Change - Abstract
This thesis develops the concept of 'cooking-with algae' as a material-discursive approach to collaborative human-nonhuman artistic research. My aim is to create new tools for working with nonhuman ecologies in performance that challenge anthropocentric narratives of consumption. My methodology develops through a series of practical experiments conducted with algae during the course of this project. These experiments are referenced throughout the thesis and can be viewed, alongside video documentation, in the accompanying practice component to this submission: 'The Algae Cook Book' (ACB). This thesis is structured according to three different 'cooking methods' that compose three of its four main chapters after the methodology: rendering, extracting and curing. In each chapter the method provides the ecological basis for my investigations into human-algae processual relationships and the framework for how my creative experiments and analysis seek to rework anthropocentric paradigms in performance. The three main thesis chapters follow the same structure in relation to each 'cooking method': the first part explores anthropocentric representations of human-algae ecologies in terms of dominant narratives and systems of human consumption. The second part considers dynamics of nonhuman representation and agency in an algae based artwork, followed by an analysis of four practical experiments where I explore how different 'cooking apparatuses' operate as tools for collaborative algae-human artistic practice with reference to examples in the ACB. The third part considers how these practical experiments highlight the vital role algae agencies play in transforming environments and what new forms of narrative are generated to this effect. Throughout this research, I employ Karen Barad's (2007) theorisation of apparatuses, as material-discursive tools that shape both the researcher and outcomes of experimentation, to question the process of knowledge production with nonhumans and to develop four different 'cooking apparatuses' as tools for embodied creative inquiry with algae: language, technology, bodies and documentation. I draw on Donna Haraway's (2016) concept of 'sympoiesis' to propose that the new narratives generated through my practical experiments demonstrate examples of what I theorise as 'algae sympoiesis'. 'Algae sympoiesis' encompasses an eco-dramaturgical approach to performance where new modes of entangled storytelling exemplify how human-algae interdependencies operate as forces for ecological change.
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- 2021
3. Posthumane Selbstformungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur am Beispiel von Olga Flors Ich in Gelb
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Lisa Keil
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posthumanism ,gender ,technologies of the self ,literary analysis ,sympoiesis ,subjectivity ,Genealogy ,CS1-3090 ,History (General) ,D1-2009 - Abstract
This article examines the intersections between technologies of the self, posthumanism, and gender by means of a literary analysis of Olga Flor's 2015 novel Ich in Gelb. A reading of the novel shows how Flor discusses the immunotherapy practice of helminthic therapy in connection with different 'monsters' like Medusa, bearded women, and mermaids, motifs that carry certain gender representations. However, the novel not only plays on old representations but also deconstructs traditional gender divisions and dissolves the illusion of a fixed self in employing posthumanist ideas. Applying Haraway's concept of sympoiesis in the analysis of the relationship between human and worm as well as between text and worm, the examination of Flor's novel shows that there is a correspondence between the 'forming' of the self and the literary form of the novel. Therefore, literature has an epistemological function in understanding posthuman technologies of the self.
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- 2022
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4. Troubling authority and material bodies:creating sympoietic pedagogies for working with children and practitioners
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Murris, K. (Karin) and Haynes, J. (Joanna)
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Posthumanism ,Authority ,Sympoiesis ,Democracy ,Diffraction ,Negotiation - Abstract
Discourses and relations of child/adult and early education are super-permeated with ideas and practices of authority and boundary-making. In early years’ practices, deeply important beliefs and assumptions about who or what has authority and who or what should create the boundaries of everyday activity often go unquestioned. This produces different kinds of epistemic injustice in respect of children and those who work with them, as well as through the materialities of early childhood and training settings, including higher education. These systems of authority both express and produce wider patterns of living associated with the wider society, including democracies. Posthumanism inspires questions about not only ways of knowing, but also about the privileging of dis/embodied knowing over feeling, intuiting, sensing, making, and moving. This paper thinks from the diffractive position that knowing is a direct material and moving engagement to explore possibilities for sympoietic pedagogies of enquiry-making-with (Haraway, 2016), and examines how these generate new ideas about early childhood practices and what professional knowledge might become. We illustrate this diffractive curriculum and pedagogy through an example from teacher education in South Africa to make important connections between authority, pedagogy, and an enlarged framework for democratic education; in this work, we explore sympoietic approaches to negotiation.
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- 2020
5. Ecologies of the Imagination : Theorizing the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic
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Israelson, Per
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ecocriticism ,genre theory ,fantasy ,comic books ,sympoiesis ,ontogenesis ,Alan Moore ,posthumanism ,neocybernetics ,Litteraturvetenskap ,General Literature Studies ,the fantastic ,J. R. R. Tolkien ,Media theory ,media ecology ,William Blake - Abstract
This book is about the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic. In it, the author argues that the definition of the fantastic presented by Tzvetan Todorov in 1970 can be used, provided it is first adapted to a media-ecological framework, to theorize the role of aesthetic participation in the creation of secondary worlds. Working within a hermeneutical tradition, Todorov understands reader participation as interpretation, in which the creative ambiguities of the literary object are primarily epistemological. However, it is here argued that the aesthetic object of the fantastic is also characterized by material ambiguity. The purpose of this dissertation is then to present a conceptual framework with which to theorize the relation between the material and the epistemological ambiguity of the fantastic. It is argued that such a framework can be found in an ecological understanding of aesthetic participation. This, in turn, entails understanding human subjectivity as a process always already embodied in a material environment. To this extent, the proposed theoretical framework questions the clear and oppositional distinction between form and matter, as well as that between mind and body, nature and culture, and human and non-human, on which a modern and humanist notion of subjectivity is based. And in this sense, the basic ecological assumptions of this dissertation are posthumanist, or non-humanist. From this position, it is argued that an ecological understanding of participation offers a means to reformulate the function of a number of concepts central to studying the aesthetics of the fantastic, most notably the concepts of media, genre and text. As the fantastic focuses on the creation of other worlds, it is an aesthetics of coming into being, of ontogenesis. Accordingly, it will be argued that the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic operationalizes the ontogenesis of media, genres and texts. By mapping the ontogenesis of three distinct media ecologies – the media ecology of fantasy and J. R. R. Tolkien’s secondary world Middle-earth; the media ecology of the American comic book superhero Miracleman; and the media ecology of William Blake – this book argues that the ecological imagination generates world. Per Israelson has been a doctoral candidate in the Research School of Studies in Cultural History at the department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Ecologies of the Imagination is his dissertation.
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- 2017
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