dc.contributor.advisor |
Du Preez, Amanda |
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Kock, Michelle |
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2022-12-02T06:53:14Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-12-02T06:53:14Z |
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dc.date.created |
2023 |
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dc.date.issued |
2022 |
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dc.description |
Dissertation (MA (Digital Culture and Media))--University of Pretoria, 2022. |
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dc.description.abstract |
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. |
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Unrestricted |
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dc.description.degree |
MA (Digital Culture and Media) |
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dc.description.department |
Visual Arts |
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dc.identifier.citation |
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 |
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A2023 |
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https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88607 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
University of Pretoria |
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dc.rights |
© 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. |
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UCTD |
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dc.subject |
Agential realism |
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dc.subject |
New materialism |
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dc.subject |
Queer feminism |
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dc.subject |
De)humanisation |
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dc.subject |
Humanoid robotics |
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dc.title |
New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment |
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dc.type |
Dissertation |
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