Sexual politics in the narratives of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Scullion, Val; Treby, Marion

doi:10.1080/09589236.2012.745685

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“…The Sandman is a pivotal story in this history, and there has been debate whether this story, and Hoffman's oeuvre more generally, espouses or mocks misogyny (cf. Scullion & Treby, 2013).…”

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Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women

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2023

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We use the myth of Pygmalion as a lens to investigate and frame the relationship between women and artificial intelligence (AI). Pygmalion was a legendary ancient king of Cyprus and sculptor. Having been repulsed by women, he used his skills to create a statue, which was imbued with life by the goddess Aphrodite. This can be seen as one of the primordial AI-like myths, wherein humanity creates intelligent life-like self-images to reproduce or replace ourselves. In addition, the myth prefigures historical and present gendered dynamics within the field of AI and between AI and society at large. Throughout history, the theme of women being replaced by inanimate objects (e.g. automata, algorithms) has been repeated, and continues to repeat in contemporary AI technologies. However, this socially detrimental pattern in technology — what we dub Pygmalion displacement — is often overlooked, whether due to naive excitement about new developments, or due to an unacknowledged sexist history of the field itself. As we demonstrate herein, Pygmalion displacement prefigures heavily, but in an unacknowledged way, in the original Turing test, the imitation game: a central thought experiment, foundational to AI. With women, and the feminine generally, being both dislocated and erased from and by technology, AI is and has been (presented as) created mainly by privileged men, subserving capitalist patriarchal ends. This poses serious dangers to women and other marginalised people. By tracing the historical and ongoing entwinement of femininity (from a patriarchal perspective) and AI, we aim to understand, make visible, and start a dialogue on the ways in which AI harms women.

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“…The Sandman is a pivotal story in this history, and there has been debate whether this story, and Hoffman's oeuvre more generally, espouses or mocks misogyny (cf. Scullion & Treby, 2013).…”

Section: The Sandman (1816)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women

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kleinherenbrink²,

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2023

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“…La questione è più che mai dibattuta e ha finora dato luogo a una varietà di posizioni che muovono da giudizi moderati e aperti al dubbio(Scullion 2013;Ferro Milone 2018) fino ad accuse rigide e inamovibili(Schmidt 1988;Hadlock 1994). …”

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“Perché proprio Napoleone?”: Neue Lebensansichten eines Katers come prima riscrittura femminista nell’opera di Christa Wolf

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2023

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Il racconto di Christa Wolf Neue Lebensansichten eines Katers viene solitamente interpretato come una satira socio-scientifica rivolta contro le aspirazioni tecnocratiche della DDR e all'interno della quale le donne non rivestono che un ruolo marginale. Spostando invece l'attenzione sui personaggi femminili del racconto, l'articolo vuole mostrare le strategie letterarie adottate dall'autrice al fine di mettere in discussione e sovvertire le dinamiche di potere operanti nella definizione dei ruoli di genere. Da una simile analisi risulterà infine evidente la rilevanza del testo all'interno del costante percorso di autoconsapevolezza che culminerà nella stesura di Kassandra e di Medea.

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Devilish Dynamics: Fairy Tale, Dream, Art, and Dance in E. T. A. Hoffmann's “New Year's Eve Adventure”

Scullion¹,

Treby²

2014

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Sexual politics in the narratives of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women

“Perché proprio Napoleone?”: Neue Lebensansichten eines Katers come prima riscrittura femminista nell’opera di Christa Wolf

Devilish Dynamics: Fairy Tale, Dream, Art, and Dance in E. T. A. Hoffmann's “New Year's Eve Adventure”

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