The Replaceability Paradigm : Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Niall.

Contributor:

Willemars, Ilios.

Series:

Culture and Conflict Series

Culture and Conflict Series ; v.26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substitution (Psychology).

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This volume, edited by Niall Martin and Ilios Willemars, explores the concept of 'replacement' in cultural, social, and political contexts. It addresses the ways in which notions of replacement function as a cultural logic, particularly within the framework of late capitalism and neoliberalism. The book examines the impact of technologies like AI and their potential to replace human roles, as well as the broader implications of replacement in fields such as psychology, art, and Black studies. The target audience includes scholars and students in cultural studies, social sciences, and humanities. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Contents

Preamble: Why Replacement?

Introduction: Replaceability and the Politics of the Paradigm

Signs and Semiotics

Ir/Replaceability, Il/Literacy and the Decolonization of the Alphabet: The Lessons of Arrival

Environmental Pareidolia: Computer Vision and the Replacement of the Unpredictable

‘What If?’: Reading Replacing in/as (Contemporary, Chinese, Science) Fiction

Subject to Replacement

Old Soles and Rotting Bananas: How to Grieve what we Replace?

The Ir/Replaceability of the Witness-Perpetrator in Salomé Lamas’s No Man’s Land

The Ir/Replaceable and “Walking in the Rays of a Beautiful Sun”: Dante Alighieri’s and Aimé Césaire’s Deployments of the Solar

From Stage to Screen: A Feminist Aesthetic Approach to Samuel Beckett’s Not I on Television

Psyche and Sacrifice

Puppets and People, from Kleist to Stelarc

A Poetics of Ersatz: Ersatzbildung in Freud and Hoffmann

Sacrificial Animals and their Placeholders: Symbolic Irreplaceability in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Das Gespräch über Gedichte”

Coda

Modernity’s Irreplaceability: Data, Derivatives, and the Fungibility of the Flesh

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ISBN:

9783111286402

3111286401

OCLC:

1432194747