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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
Dissertation (MA (Digital Culture and Media))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/88607 New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment Du Preez, Amanda kockmichelle@gmail.com Kock, Michelle UCTD Agential realism New materialism Queer feminism De)humanisation Humanoid robotics Dissertation (MA (Digital Culture and Media))--University of Pretoria, 2022. Dominant understandings of sex, gender and sexuality align with patriarchal ideology that maintains misogyny, sexism and male supremacy. A critical feature of the aforementioned gender paradigm is strict mutually exclusive binarism and essentialism. By taking a queer feminist perspective on gender (and the gender binary) and using posthuman new materialism (agential realism) as a theoretical framework this study engages with the constitution of myriad binaries, including the male/female, man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual, sex/gender, human/nonhuman and mind/body binaries. Through a diffractive reading of feminist poststructuralist, new materialist, biological, ethnographical and queer theories of sexual difference, sex, gender and sexuality and the binary genderisation of anthropomorphised social technologies – including intelligent assistants and companion and humanoid robotics – the iterative constitution of sex, gender, sexuality, body and human is explored revealing various apparatuses that material-discursively (de)stabilise these binaries. Thinking of gender, the body and the human as dynamic contingent phenomena and taking a non-anthropocentric stance allows a reconsideration of both robotic and human embodiment. Paramount here is the dual possibilities of creating more of the same, reinscribing normative realities or leaving open the potential for the co- creation of dynamic futures. Visual Arts MA (Digital Culture and Media) Unrestricted 2022-12-02T06:53:14Z 2022-12-02T06:53:14Z 2023 2022 Dissertation Kock, M 2022, New materialism and gender - (re)configuring human and robotic embodiment, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88607 A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88607 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Agential realism New materialism Queer feminism De)humanisation Humanoid robotics New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| title | New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| title_full | New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| title_fullStr | New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| title_short | New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| title_sort | new materialism and gender re configuring human and robotic embodiment |
| topic | UCTD Agential realism New materialism Queer feminism De)humanisation Humanoid robotics |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88607 |