tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37977602.post7678802850510231797..comments2023-03-31T19:54:02.251-07:00Comments on the OBSCENE machine: A colleague of mine at Temple writes in...William A. Nericciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16009498659408734670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37977602.post-68587734896738939292007-01-25T09:16:00.000-08:002007-01-25T09:16:00.000-08:00Coincidentally this writing, porcelaine-looking do...Coincidentally this writing, porcelaine-looking doll is French as is the little girl giant we watched in class. It's an interesting contradiction to me that this doll and the marionette are both so realistic and able to mimic so thoroughly human actions, but that they also have a very obvious doll-like appearance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37977602.post-31756078481260213312007-01-22T15:10:00.000-08:002007-01-22T15:10:00.000-08:00The comments here refer to this posting hereThe comments here refer to this posting <a href="http://theobscenemachine.blogspot.com/2007/01/there-is-uncanny-agency-unnerving.html">here</a>William A. Nericciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16009498659408734670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37977602.post-23536378781035746262007-01-22T15:07:00.000-08:002007-01-22T15:07:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.William A. Nericciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16009498659408734670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37977602.post-2914060102111614942007-01-22T14:36:00.000-08:002007-01-22T14:36:00.000-08:00um, with apologies i (like you) shall reduce the t...um, with apologies i (like you) shall reduce the terrible beauty of our email rhetoric to scatological shards (if there’s no intrinsic, unalterable meaning to any given act, and actions require context for human intelligibility, then supplying a narrative, no matter how unintelligible, is necessary to render utterances intelligible, nicht wahr?)—please laugh if you will:<br />consider the girl asAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com