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Breve storia delle fantasmagorie

Fuori Luogo, 2021
L’articolo evidenzia il legame tra il flâneur, come descritto negli studi di Benjamin, e i luoghi emblematici della moderna società dei consumi, incentrati sul valore simbolico della merce.
Federico Castigliano
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Visitor‐I and dual worldmaking: Queer museology between Tuntenhaus and the Schwules Museum

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the visitor‐I as an embodied protocol for analyzing how queer archival exhibitions choreograph perception, affect, and learning, and it uses dual worldmaking as a bounded heuristic to name the relation between lived worldmaking in the Tuntenhaus squat and curatorial worldmaking in the museum, and I argue that the visitor ...
Melike Atmanoğlu
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Humanism in the Age of Hyperreality: A Speculative Critique of AI Therapybots and the Neoliberal Commodification of Human Beings

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the future place of humanistic counseling, assuming the successful mass deployment of artificial intelligence therapy chatbots (AITCs). We systematically identify the limitations of AITCs through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's view on simulacra and hyperreality and identify five collective psychosocial consequences of ...
Brett. D. Wilkinson, Andrew M. Brown
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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Simulation, A-signification and Embodied Semiotics in I, Robot [PDF]

Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2019
Within the post-industrialized worldview, conventional correlations between a text and its linguistic determinations no longer hold as absolute, challenging the limits of a linguistic measure by semiotic analysis. Yet, even in the postmodern condition of
David U. Garfinkle
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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Selfhood and simulacra

Filosofický časopis, 2023
Snapchat dysmorphia is a body dysmorphic disorder where a user of filtered selfies becomes dissatisfied with his or her “natural” appearance and seeks surgical procedures in order to look like in the filtered selfies. This study presents the current discussions of Snapchat dysmorphia and proposes to further analyse the phenomenon against the backdrop ...
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CRISPR, APGAR and Cancer Screening: Public Engagement, Controversy and Misaligned Values

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are many calls for public engagement in decision‐making around controversial technologies, but far fewer calls for public engagement in deliberation around less controversial interventions. We think the public should be involved in discussing CRISPR, but not in discussing APGAR.
Stephen John
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On the Critique of the ‘Creator — Viewer’ Information Chain [PDF]

Художественная культура
This article extends the ongoing research on the phenomenon of information noise in screen arts by examining the interconnected components of the ‘creator — filters — viewer’ communication chain within contemporary screen productions.
Maloletkin Maksim F.
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