Becoming Posthuman looks to dystopian and apocalyptic fiction to interrogate what it means to be human in a contemporary global landscape marked by neoliberal politics, white supremacy, and environmental precarity. In particular, this project responds to and examines the converg…
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The tendency within science fiction to satirise and expose dominant political and social structures works in harmony with Agamben's paradigmatic, philosophical system, which seeks to similarly expose the functioning of biopolitical structures in the West. Agamben is known for hi…
Acting upon Livestock's Long Shadow to mitigate climate change, mass extinction, and other social-ecological crises requires fundamental changes in food practices. Labelled as "ethical consumers", vegans, vegetarians, and meat-reducing carnists already attract considerable atten…
Are we cyborgs or humans? This question is at the heart of this investigation, and the implications of it are all around us. In Christian theology, humans are seen as uniquely made in the image of God (imago dei). This has been taken to mean various things, but broadly, it sugge…
This thesis proposes a weird, giant, and cycling memorial spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed system of deconstruction and reconstruction: a constant disp…
Whereas many have surmised that the technological vision for biorobotics originated with science fiction, it actually originated much earlier, in a constellation of science-influenced works of fiction in the romance tradition little-known as the “scientific romance”. The scienti…
In a time when the anthropocentrism of Western thinking and acting is under increased scrutiny for its role in the ecological and social crises of our time, new imaginaries and design approaches that question human-centrism, and open up paths towards alternatives, are needed. As…
This thesis reflects on the limits of the frame of communication, adopted by posthumanist thinkers like Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett, for addressing the challenge of a more-thanhuman politics. It explores how Hannah Arendt's political thought, brought into dialogue with feminis…
This dissertation explores interactions between media and communication technologies and the ideological commitments and identity claims of violent lone actors. Terrorist incidents involving lone actors are more prevalent in the 21st Century than at any point in modern history, …