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Beyond Mimesis
Aesthetic Experience in Uncanny Valleys
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2023
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Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, Beyond Mimesis contributes to the theory of mimesis and alterity in performance philosophy while serving to stimulate and inspire future inquiries where studies in media and art intersect with philosophy. It collects a wide range of philosophical and artistic thinkers' work to develop an exacting framework with clear movement beyond mimesis in aesthetic experiences in uncanny valleys. Together, the chapters ask if intersubjective acts of relating that are defined by alterity, responsivity or witness and trust can be transferred to artificial beings without remainder.
The proposed framework uses a particularly fruitful theoretical model for this inquiry known as the “uncanny valley”—a fictitious schema developed in 1970 by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. According to Mori, artificial beings or animated dolls become more eerie to us the more “humanlike” they appear. The model’s utility requires distinguishing between visual media and real life, but in general, it suggests that there is a fundamental incommensurability between people and artificial beings that cannot be ignored. This necessitates that all-too realistic representations as well as fictional encounters with artificial beings do not transgress certain limits. According to Mori, it is an ethical imperative of their design that they evidence a certain degree of dissimilarity with people. This notion seems especially applicable to artistic projects in which animated dolls or robots make explicit their “doll-ness” or “robot-ness” and thus inscribe a moment of reflexivity into the relations they establish.
With contributions by Elena Dorfman, Jörg Sternagel, Dieter Mersch, Allison de Fren, Nadja Ben Khelifa, James Tobias, Grant Palmer, Stephan Günzel, Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado, Misha Choudhry and a conversation between Carolin Bebek, Simon Makhali, and Anna Suchard.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7179-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7181-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
206
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Photography after Still Lovers No access Pages 1 - 10
Pathos of the Actor1 No access Pages 11 - 26
Mathematical Imagery and the Aesthetic of Radical Amimetic No access Pages 27 - 42
Dances with Dolls No access Pages 43 - 60
Race, Nation, and the Uncanny as Mythical “Character of Expression” No access Pages 61 - 86
Pornotroping the Machine No access Pages 87 - 106
Stay at Home No access Pages 107 - 124
In the Uncanny Valley of Augmented Reality No access Pages 125 - 142
Carving Identities in Cyberspace No access Pages 143 - 160
Translating Structures of Surveillance into Technologies of Care No access Pages 161 - 176
Artificial and Artistic Intelligences No access Pages 177 - 190
