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The Uncanny as Antisublime

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Abstract Many authors have remarked on the relationship between the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the uncanny. Building on a suggestion made by Cynthia Freeland, my aim in this paper is to show how, once inverted, Kant’s theory of the sublime provides a valuable resource for developing a novel theoretical approach to the ...
Windsor, Mark, Windsor, Mark,
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An Investigation into the uncanny: character design, behaviour and context. [PDF]

Whilst there has been a substantial amount of research into the uncanny valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area.
Tharib, S
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Uncanny intimacies [PDF]

, 2022
Uncanny Intimacies discusses human-nonhuman relationships in a time of climate change through the writing of my novel ...
Riley, P.
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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]

, 2008
This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian, Siân Bayne, Bayne, Sian; id_orcid   +2 more
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Colonial Trauma in Márquez and Rushdie’s Magical Realism [PDF]

, 2015
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children are hallmarks of the genre of magical realism. A typically problematic genre in terms of classification, this article looks at magical realism from a Freudian
Miller, Rachel
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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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From Al-Rashid to Osama bin Laden - transformations of the archetypes of Eastern people in the imagination of the West [PDF]

Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2019
The second is dangerous, Freudian ‘uncanny’ (the Man of the Mountain or Osama bin Laden now). For me the attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 is the point of turn the imagological point of view on that archetypes. Both of types operated
Mirosław Gołuński
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One’s Own and Foreign in Context of Later Heidegger’s Philosophy

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023
The purpose of the paper is to analyze the interrelations between the notions of one’s own and the foreign in later Heidegger’s philosophy. It is pointed out that later Heidegger contextualized the notion of the world by the notion of home and its ...
Alexander I. Pigalev
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The Uncanniness of Form

Edda, 2017
This article is concerned with Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Amorina from 1839 and aims to exemplify how its formal organization relates to the Freudian uncanny.
Boris Lazic
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Walking Through Everyday Life: Tensions and Disruptions within the Ordinary

Open Philosophy, 2023
Bringing together a genealogy of authors, concepts, and aesthetic case studies, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on ordinary aesthetics by focusing on the tensions that are intrinsic to walking as a fundamental embodied action in ...
Conceição Nélio
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