tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post9091132021898037879..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Return to Uncanny ValleyTimothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-84493696131208933172020-03-09T05:46:18.630-06:002020-03-09T05:46:18.630-06:00Hey Tim-
Do you mind if I ask you a few questions...Hey Tim-<br /><br />Do you mind if I ask you a few questions regarding this wonderful stuff?<br /><br />I'm curious if you have any thoughts on where spiders fall in the Uncanny Valley and in relation to Spectral Plain.<br /><br />I suspect that spiders (with specific regard to our terror of them) fall off the back end of the chart, past robotic industrial robot, into another valley antipodal to human likeness, owing to their "conscious autonomy," as having not been created by humans.<br /><br />So if R2D2 sits atop the hill looking across the valley at "healthy person" - then spider sit across the upside down underworld hill looking across at human corpse and zombie.<br /><br />I'm curious wrt to the possibility that the spider is the embodiment of "algorithm" or non-corporeal viral/language entity, on the Spectral Plain - the terror of the network, which we are, but which we can't put our finger on (yet) because it has no body. (Even the word "body" in this case invokes repulsion unto terror... corpse and spider in equal, if oppositional, form).<br /><br />In parallel I suspect wrt to the fraternity and empathy possible with R2D2, that one may suddenly slip into the underworld, through the very empathy - or trap - established with that entity. That by probing more deeply, perhaps farther the one "should," we encounter in R2D2 the "eye of the spider" - very literally, and may suddenly experience terror with the very creature whom just invoked feelings of trust and camaraderie.<br /><br />So there are two parallel lines running from right to left, from lowest trough to highest crest; from spider --> R2D2 and from corpse/zombie --> healthy person. And our terror is that the line might jump, and in fact run from spider to healthy person. Which is what we encounter now in the hyperobject.<br /><br />The non-corporeal network as hyperobject makes this possible by revealing the simultaneity of the uncanny valley and the spectral plain? And the because of this this simultaneity, the non-corporeal network is literally building a body for itself - the spider. Placing us - on the spectral plain in direct continuum with spider. Uncanny terror now simultaneous with uncanny intimacy. We are the body of the network. We are the spider.<br /><br />Any thoughts?<br /><br />Apologies for taking up airspace here, or retreading ground you've already covered!<br /><br />As always- highest regards-<br />JW<br /> Jeff Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18397358847867627075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-35495443014255758382011-03-30T13:44:52.414-06:002011-03-30T13:44:52.414-06:00Fascinating idea, Tim!Fascinating idea, Tim!Nathan Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04326939633169223993noreply@blogger.com