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AI, Allegory and the Cinematic Multiverse:
As a historical era becomes sufficiently aware of a key scientific development of its times – it responds by internalising the broader points of debate and incorporating them into the discourses in popular culture. This happened with Darwin and Evolution, the voyages to new lands led to the growth of Sci-Fi and the advances in AI have excited cinema. The essay looks at some recent films in this context, including from the Marvel franchise.
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An Insubstantial Pageant Faded: Reflections on the AI Generated Image in Hollywood:
The essay reflects on the actor’s countenance as recreated by AI including those of faded stars suddenly imparted youth. It asks if the actor legitimately owns his or her own image since actor’s guilds are coming out in protest against what is being termed a theft of the image.
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Do Automated Models Dream of Universal Truths: Robert Bresson’s Transcendental Cinema in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence:
Robert Bresson is a great French film-maker known for his treatment of actors as ‘models.’ He held that ‘acting’ - derived from the practices of theatre - encouraged them to add noise to their roles - when catching an instant of their being was more important to the ‘universal truths’ in each work. He made his models subdue their selves by speaking flatly as if they were reading instead of becoming rhetorical. The essay asks what the AI generated image might mean in this context.
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Borges and Machine Translation: ‘Blue Tigers’:
This is another translation of a story by Jorge Luis Borges but it includes a brief introduction examining the translation of a few sentences in the story using online translation tools. The original story in Spanish and the translation are separately provided in a PDF.
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Mimesis and the Relevance of the Artistic/Literary Tradition in India:
The essay looks at the role of mimesis in the production of arts and literature and the issue of relevance to the context of each age. It examines artistic theory and practice in India which departs from mimesis by insisting on a kind of idealization (‘mimesis of a special kind, not of things in their actuality but in their potentiality’) and then asks whether art and literature produced in this way can be relevant.
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Hindutva, Electoral Fortunes and a Vision for the Nation:
The elections to the Lok Sabha are due in 2024 and the essay takes stock of what has happened since 2014, also speculating on the BJP’s rise to power and the reasons for the Congress’ decline. Why this happened and whether the BJP has achieved what it might have - as per the expectations of its constituency- are its primary concerns since the Party has not clearly laid out its political aims despite being nearly a decade in power.
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