Agentive Names and Posthuman Ontologies: Onomastic Invocations of the "More-than-Human" in Early Christian and Medieval Tibetan Artifacts.
In recent years, posthumanist arguments regarding ontology and agency have played a significant role in reshaping the contours of the so-called humanities. Whereas this reshaping has focused heavily on the impact of technology (e.g. artificial intelligence) on the meaning of "being human," as well a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 430 - 449 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2023
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