Hans Burgkmair the Elder's Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, painted in 1504 as part of the Basilikabilder series at Augsburg's Dominican convent of St. Katherine, incorporates an intriguing catoptric ...motif in the Crucifixion scene. From the Good Centurion's polished armor, the reflected image of an ugly Jewish soldier stares back in horror. Blind to Jesus' christological identity and to his own nature, he appears as an antimodel of "recognition" (anagnôrisis), which Aristotle defines in The Poetics as a "change from ignorance to knowledge." Set in confrontation with the Centurion, who exemplifies recognition, the character thematizes an enduring challenge to Christian conscience.
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While the HBO show Westworld (2016-present, created by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan) has gained much critical attention for its byzantine plotting and philosophical conundrums, the present discussion ...focuses instead on the basic premise on which the titular park operates, namely that the algorithms that govern human behavior can be disclosed by studying how human beings behave toward image beings. Under the guise of a tactile experience of a make-believe past, the park attractions clandestinely function as a large behavioral sensor, extracting actionable data from the guests who reveal their inner drives when interacting with the host environment. Taking its cue from the opening titles of the first season, the argument pivots on the master trope of the series: the machine-readable scroll of perforated paper that commands the automated performance of the player piano. This motif is examined through a double-pronged approach that aligns the anthropology of images developed by Hans Belting, which understands the relation between humans and images as the interactions between "hosts" and "guests," with the archaeology of media and its dominant concern to uncover the prehistory of the automated control systems of the computer age. While Westworld proffers a timely allegory of biopolitical capture along the digital frontier, the show ultimately testifies to the failure to constructively engage with the precarious relation between hosts and guests that to an equal extent defines our contemporary moment. The initial problem raised by Westworld, the ethics of killing virtual beings, thus gives rise to a broader historical inquiry that concerns the inability of human societies to face the past and deal with the images they inherit.
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The main themes include the masks of the self and the roles of the face, the portrait as a mask, and the face in the context of electronic media. ...this reviewer is uncertain how the text might be ...used in the classroom or for research.
