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The Metaphor of the Net

Embodiment and Disembodiment in Contemporary Cinema
  • Yvonne Förster
Published/Copyright: January 20, 2018
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Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy
From the journal Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy Volume 2017 Issue 2

Abstract

My aim in this paper is to sketch a picture of how we currently visualize human vs. artificial intelligence. I am going to analyze images depicting the transcendence of the human in recent movies, which I take to be significant for the contemporary conditio humana. I will examine how movies like Her (USA 2013, Spike Jonze) or Transcendence (USA 2014, Wally Pfister) invent and use images of human and artificial life. I will then analyze the images themselves, how they are connected and what underlying ontological assumptions can be found. My main focus will be on the concept of the body and figures of disembodied intelligence. I will argue that disembodied intelligence has become a central topos in contemporary cinema. I will show how these ideas relate to the presentation of technology as a highly complex and dynamic net-structure, comparable to the characteristics of the human brain.

Published Online: 2018-1-20
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Editorial Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Embodiment
  6. I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
  7. The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
  8. Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
  9. Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
  10. What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
  11. Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
  12. II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
  13. “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
  14. Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
  15. On Bodily Resonance
  16. III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
  17. Aesthetic Turn
  18. Felt-Bodily Resonances
  19. Body, Language and Mediality
  20. Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
  21. The Metaphor of the Net
  22. IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
  23. “I” “here” and “you” “there”
  24. Living in the Moment
  25. Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
  26. V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
  27. From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
  28. Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
  29. Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
  30. VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
  31. The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
  32. On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
  33. VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
  34. Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
  35. Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
  36. Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
  37. Is “Intention” Present or Not?
  38. The First Philosophical Word
  39. Bio-Bibliography
  40. Name Index
https://doi.org/10.1515/yewph-2017-0016

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Editorial Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Embodiment
  6. I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
  7. The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
  8. Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
  9. Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
  10. What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
  11. Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
  12. II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
  13. “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
  14. Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
  15. On Bodily Resonance
  16. III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
  17. Aesthetic Turn
  18. Felt-Bodily Resonances
  19. Body, Language and Mediality
  20. Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
  21. The Metaphor of the Net
  22. IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
  23. “I” “here” and “you” “there”
  24. Living in the Moment
  25. Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
  26. V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
  27. From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
  28. Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
  29. Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
  30. VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
  31. The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
  32. On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
  33. VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
  34. Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
  35. Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
  36. Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
  37. Is “Intention” Present or Not?
  38. The First Philosophical Word
  39. Bio-Bibliography
  40. Name Index
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