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Introduction. The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies
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We would like to propose the concept of “uncanny aesthetics” to think
through the ways in which we are remaking the human in the contemporary
moment. The “uncanny valley” is a popular concept in robotics and
graphic animation, which describes the feeling of unease caused by robots
or digital creations that resemble humans too closely, startling us when
they reveal their n onhuman nature to us. Masahiro Mori (2012), an authority
within the fi eld of robotics, posits that this feeling of eeriness is
probably instinctual, developing from our need to fear unhealthy humans
and corpses, of which nonliving robots remind us. Jennifer Rhee critiques
Mori for this assumption and points out the unstable nature of the human
in the fi rst place, against which nonhuman others are supposed to be measured.
The uncanny valley, Rhee (2013) argues, is the product of a long
history that orients us toward specifi c defi nitions and demarcations of the
human, and thus the discomfort that we feel toward the almost human reveals
not our instincts but rather our entanglement with what lies beyond
the human. Our emphasis in this volume on uncanny aesthetics is a call to
deploy our productive unease as scholars regarding the permeable limits
of the human. In a similar way to how Evija Laivina’s art denaturalizes the
bodily modifi cation products available online, our work seeks to render the
familiar strange and the strange familiar and analyze the power dynamics
behind our global rush to repair bodies, reshape bodies, and replace body
parts.
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Alvaro Jarrín, Chiara Pussetti (2021). Introduction. The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies. In Alvaro Jarrín, Chiara Pussetti (Eds.), Remaking the human. Cosmetic technologies of body repair, reshaping and replacement. (Politics of Repair, 2), pp. 1-14. New York. Oxford: Berghahn Books