Interrogating Interpassivity: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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University of Canterbury
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2018
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Thomas, Nicol
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Robert Pfaller encounters Lacan’s commentary on the Greek chorus. Something strikes him, something resonates. It raises a question for him; if the Chorus is a running commentary on the “feelings” of the actors playing the fiction (semblance) of a human reality for the passive audience watching, just who is “feeling” what, and where? For Pfaller this raises the thorny issue of “external existence”, the feeling that exists outside the body and lived experience of a human (divided) subject. He writes:

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