Posthumanistische Nostalgie (Diplom)
- Konstruktion von Authentizität in 'Her' (Spike Jonze, USA 2013)
Author
Location, Date
Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich, 30 June 2019
Keywords
Posthumanismus, Filmanalyse
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The movie "Her" (Spike Jonze, USA 2013) tells the love story of a man and the voice of his artificially intelligent operating system Samantha. It stands out from other high-tech visions of the future within the Science-Fiction genre due to its nostalgic retro style and therefore offers an unusual perspective on the posthumanistic idea of transcending the boundaries between human and machine. This paper explores the ideas that "Her" conveys about a convergence of artificial intelligence with humans and examines the influence of the film’s nostalgic mode. Employing the concepts of nostalgia and posthumanism, this paper analyses "Her’s" production of authenticity as a key subject of nostalgic longing and its allocation of gender-specific positions of power aligning with posthumanistic cyber fantasies. As will be shown, the nostalgia of "Her" reflects a longing for undivided attention, the significance of the individual in a digital era and defines interhuman relationships as authentic. Authenticity will be explained as a constructed concept which is used in various forms of production in the film to increase the credibility of the love between a man and a disembodied intelligence. At the same time the film upholds authenticity as a human ideal and portrays Samantha as an artificial being that fakes humanness and escapes the control of her owner which stands in contrast to this ideal. Therefore, Her conveys the idea that a convergence of artificial intelligence and humans poses a threat to human authenticity and projects the fear of loss of authenticity onto technology and femininity. (AutorInnenkurzreferat)
Language, Format, Material, Edition
German
Activity List
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- Gabriele Jutz - Supervisor (Graduate Thesis)
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Location
Address
- Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
- Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
- 1010 Wien
- Österreich