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The Uncanny Robots of Pilot Pirx: Stanisław Lem’s Tales
Interlitteraria, 2016 There was a time when Stanisław Lem was the best sold and read writer in Poland (though he was even bigger in the Soviet Union and East Germany). His popularity steadily grew from the time of his debut and reached its apogee in the late nineteen-sixties.
Dominika Oramus
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CoRR, 2020 Deep neural networks have become remarkably good at producing realistic deepfakes, images of people that (to the untrained eye) are indistinguishable from real images. Deepfakes are produced by algorithms that learn to distinguish between real and fake images and are optimised to generate samples that the system deems realistic.
Terence Broad +2 more
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Of Holes and Wounds: Postcolonial Trauma and the Gothic in Catherine Jinks’s The Road
ES Review, 2018 This paper analyses Catherine Jinks’s The Road (2004), a multi-protagonist novel, looking into the relationship between personal and historical forms of trauma in the context of postcolonial Australia and following Rothberg’s comparatist approach.
Bárbara Arizti Martín
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Enstranged Strangers: OOO, the Uncanny, and the Gothic
Open Philosophy, 2019 Exploring the links between Speculative Realism, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism, this article examines OOO’s entanglement with the ‘uncanny’. Reading OOO against three notable treatments of the concept - Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay “The ‘Uncanny’”,
Bartholomew H.G.
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The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF
NECSUS, 2018 This article examines uncanny mediality in photographic GIFs by interrogating sources of this uncanniness and the logic informing its operation in particular examples.
Arild Fetveit
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Spectral—Fragile—(Un)homely: The Haunting Presence of Francesca Woodman in the House and Space2 Series [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the House and Space2 photographic series, Francesca Woodman captures the environments that may be considered disruptive; still, it is a female model—in her inconstant poses, always partially blurred or hidden—that holds the viewer’s attention.
Anna Kisiel
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Psychoanalytic Reading of Tall Shadows of the Wind (1979): Freud’s Uncanny in Iranian Cinema [PDF]
هنرهای زیبا. هنرهای نمایشی و موسیقیSigmund Freud’s paper “The Uncanny”, written in 1919, is a psychoanalytic study that explores the feelings humans experience when they encounter unfamiliar, frightening, or even eerie phenomena.
Maryam Darabi, Alireza Sayyad
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Metamorphoses of the Uncanny in the Short-Story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011 This study analyzes several metamorphoses of the uncanny that the short-story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl thematizes. The Freudian notion of the uncanny is connected with the definitions of the fantastic according to Tzevtan Todorov and of the maternal ...
Jacques Sohier
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Trauma e repetição: O sinistro e suas formas literárias em três momentos da nossa história
Confluenze, 2013 This article discusses the problematics of trauma, memory formation and the diverse forms of the uncanny (unheimlich) found in prison writings by Everardo Dias, Graciliano Ramos, Dyonelio Machado and Flávio Tavares, referring to different moments of ...
Daniela Birman
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The Gaze as constituent and annihilator
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2012 This article aims to join the contemporary effort to promote a psychoanalytic renaissance within cinema studies, post Post-Theory. In trying to shake off the burden of the 1970s film theory's distortion of the Lacanian Gaze, rejuvenating it with ...
Mats Carlsson
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