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List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Self-Uncanny
- Chapter 2: Uncanny Affect
- Chapter 3: Uncanny Feedback
- Epilogue: Uncanny Aesthetics
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose work focuses on representations and theorizations of violence in media, interactive art, film, and social media. She is the author of The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics (2001), Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (2017), and many articles on film, performance, installation art, new media, and the hacker group Anonymous. She is the co-editor with Professor Martine Beugnet of the series in Film and Intermediality.
Summary
Through a close reading of interactive and experimental art works, this book explores how the digital uncanny unsettles concepts of "self," "affect," "feedback," and "aesthetic experience," forcing us to reflect on our relationship with computational media and by extension our relationship to each other and our experience of the world.
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In the digital age everything needs to be updated, and Ravetto-Biagioli tells us how. What we used to fear should no longer scare us, what we used to deem paranoid is now reasonable, and even our most cherished memories are no longer safe. Digital Uncanny reveals how new techno-psycho assemblages have cut much deeper than Freud, Lacan, and Kittler ever imagined. By revealing previously undisclosed connections between the histories of art, technology and psychoanalysis, Ravetto-Biagioli offers a new testament to how the most natural has become the most uncanny.
