The Melancholy of the Machine.
Doubting Your Own Ghost in the Posthuman World
The Melancholy of the Machine.
Doubting Your Own Ghost in the Posthuman World
Author(s): Călina-Maria MoldovanSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: melancholy; robot; computer; cyborg; machine; science-fiction; longing; artificial intelligence;
Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to analyse several science-fiction movies with the purpose of identifying the different processes through which melancholy is depicted in the post-human cinematographic context. This topic will be further elaborated by studying how various characters that belong to the spectrum of artificial intelligence develop a complex, alien sensitivity. The research is aiming to create a better understanding of the dynamics between being human and being machine in science-fiction cinematography. Super computers, robots and cyborgs – they all seem to long after something unachievable and extremely ambiguous: the human element and this struggle generates a profound, exotic melancholy inside the machine.
Journal: Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media
- Issue Year: 21/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 258-269
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English