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The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF
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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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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From Al-Rashid to Osama bin Laden - transformations of the archetypes of Eastern people in the imagination of the West [PDF]
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
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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Walking Through Everyday Life: Tensions and Disruptions within the Ordinary
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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Illusory Interior: Public Housing as Uncanny Site
In 2021, Indonesia participated in the London Design Biennale, focusing on the theme of Resonance. The pavilion's response centred around public housing as an uncanny site, examining the psychological barriers faced by evicted communities during their ...
Dea Aulia Widyaevan
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« Shots in mirrors » : Les jeux de miroir dans No Country For Old Men (Coen 2007)
In her essay Shots in the Mirror (2000), Nicole Rafter emphasized the appeal of including mirrors in thrillers. More significantly, she described the thriller genre as a mirror of society, thus considering both the object and its metaphorical character ...
Julie Assouly
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On Home (das Heim) and the Uncanny (das Unheimliche) in Heidegger [PDF]
The paper aims to argue that the question of home (das Heim) is one of the crucial elements of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, which has been tackled by the German philosopher throughout his lifework in close connection to its opposition, namely the ...
Mateja Kurir Borovčić
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The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe +6 more
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As an anomalous and transgressive novel, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed (1998) has become a classic of Argentine literature in recent decades. In this paper we are interested in approaching its reading based on its link with that “Gothic mode”
Agustín Conde De Boeck
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