The Replaceability Paradigm: Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream

Published by De Gruyter 2024

The Replaceability Paradigm

Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream

Edited by: Niall Martin and Ilios Willemars

Volume 26 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111286402

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About this book

The trope of humans being ‘replaced’ by ‘AI’ is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability. Not only have questions about what is unique and what is replaceable gained momentum in digital culture, but notions of ‘fungibility’ have emerged in many other contexts as well such as ecology, management theory, and, more sinisterly, in racist and conspiracist thinking. This volume argues that there is a ‘replaceability paradigm’ at work throughout the culture of modernity, from the European Renaissance, through Freudian psychoanalysis, Chinese science fiction and postcolonial theory, all the way to neural network programs such as Google’s DeepDream. This collection will be of interest to anybody engaged with the conceptual architecture of contemporary culture, whether through film, literature, or new digital media.　

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Niall Martin, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ilios Willemars, Leiden University, Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preamble: Why Replacement? Ilios Willemars and Niall Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction: Replaceability and the Politics of the Paradigm Niall Martin and Ilios Willemars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Signs and Semiotics
Ir/Replaceability, Il/Literacy and the Decolonization of the Alphabet: The Lessons of Arrival Niall Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Environmental Pareidolia: Computer Vision and the Replacement of the Unpredictable Emilio A. Aguilar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
‘What If?’: Reading Replacing in/as (Contemporary, Chinese, Science) Fiction Murray Pratt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Subject to Replacement
Old Soles and Rotting Bananas: How to Grieve what we Replace? Reij Rosello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
The Ir/Replaceability of the Witness-Perpetrator in Salomé Lamas’s No Man’s Land Sara Magno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
The Ir/Replaceable and “Walking in the Rays of a Beautiful Sun”: Dante Alighieri’s and Aimé Césaire’s Deployments of the Solar Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
From Stage to Screen: A Feminist Aesthetic Approach to Samuel Beckett’s Not I on Television Celia Graham-Dixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Psyche and Sacrifice
Puppets and People, from Kleist to Stelarc Naomi Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
A Poetics of Ersatz: Ersatzbildung in Freud and Hoffmann Marc Amfreville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Sacrificial Animals and their Placeholders: Symbolic Irreplaceability in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Das Gespräch über Gedichte” Ilios Willemars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Coda
Modernity’s Irreplaceability: Data, Derivatives, and the Fungibility of the Flesh Ilios Willemars and Niall Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of cultural studies and the Humanities.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 251
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Replaceability; Artificial Intelligence; cultural history

eBook

Published: June 4, 2024
ISBN: 9783111286402

Hardcover

Published: June 4, 2024
ISBN: 9783111286310