Emotional Ambivalences. Loving and Hating a Tamagotchi

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 2
3. Introduction 4
4. I. Avatars
5. The Avatar 24
6. Prosthethics. Replacement and Exchange 30
7. Avatarhood and Selfhood 38
8. The Self and Its Avatars in Neuropsychiatry 45
9. The Secret Behind the Actor-and-Avatar Fmri-Study 54
10. Avatar’s Faces in EEG 59
11. “Doppeltgänger”. Body Doubles, or the Shadow and His Ego 65
12. The Avatar’s Body in Game Spaces 70
13. The AIS Have It? Hacking into the AI Avatar Dream 75
14. II. Actors
15. The Mask 86
16. Creating My Digital Self 94
17. The Birth of a Digital Actor 100
18. Humanizing Virtual People 107
19. Double Trouble. Digital Avatars on Stage 114
20. In Conversation with Neil Newbon 123
21. Facing Characters. A Volumetric Intelligence Framework 129
22. A New Geometry of the Eye. The Curious Case of Brad Pitt 135
23. On Ali Moini’s Avatar Hacking 139
24. “Tears of Truth” 148
25. III. Dolls, Puppets & Uncanny Tracks
26. Get into The Uncanny Valley 156
27. The Mechanical Bride and the Ambivalent Pleasures of the Uncanny 165
28. The Mechanical Bride. Realdolls as Companions and Accessible Objects 170
29. Promethean Shame? Pandora Reframes: Elena Dorfman’s Origin of the New World 178
30. The Artist’s Statement 183
31. Encounters of the Uncanny Kind at the Origin of the New World 184
32. Face Fracking 190
33. Sophia’s Smile. The Challenges of a Humanoid Citizen 195
34. I Married a Puppet 200
35. IV. Digital Encounters
36. Mask, Face, Countenance 210
37. A Brief Avatar-Network Theory 214
38. Puppets, Pets or Deputies. On the Relationship between Actors and Avatars 224
39. Engaging Consciousness. Time and Duration in Holly Bynoe’s Compounds 237
40. Emotional Ambivalences. Loving and Hating a Tamagotchi 242
41. Consciousness Performed 248
42. Artificial Intelligence. Traditional Expectations and a New Category of Machines 259
43. The Eyes Have It. The Problem of the Avatar Gaze 265
44. What is Koinōnia under Technological Conditions? 273
45. Appendix
46. Pictures of the Research Project 286
47. Authors 308
48. Subtexte 311