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Something that Disturbs: Encounters between Animals and Optical Machines

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Images of encounters between animals and drones or Google Street View cars are quite viral on the web. This article focuses on the different regimes of animacy and conflicts of affects in these images using an anthropo-semiotic approach. It investigates how otherness reveals something that exceeds us, from the materiality of the machine to systems of values. It suggests that the disturbance of animal presence in contemporary digital images helps us to read media technologies.

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Chasseray-Peraldi, Pauline: Something that Disturbs: Encounters between Animals and Optical Machines. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 11 (2020), Nr. 1, S. 139-155. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18747.
@ARTICLE{Chasseray-Peraldi2020,
 author = {Chasseray-Peraldi, Pauline},
 title = {Something that Disturbs: Encounters between Animals and Optical Machines},
 year = 2020,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18747}",
 volume = 11,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {139--155},
}
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