Fake people 2025

 

GANs--theatrical power

Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities 

 How do we distinguish who is human?  The theatre has been preoccupied with this since (let's say) RUR

-Wynter, Hayles, Jackson, Spivak?-->Star Trek/BSG/Westworld

 Actors, faking it.  

 

The structure isn't any clearer, but maybe what belongs is.

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Theatrical histories of pretense 

    -MLC, Roach (also actresses), Barish, [something about technical theatre? Tarryn?]:  actors and theatre, faking it.  Fakeness as epistemology

 

GANs--theatrical power of the fake and synthetic

Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities 

Unembodied:  Intelligence and personage without corporeality 

-(note that "without body" is not meant to be an attempt at definition but a description of now, since it seems probable that something like a body, or something recognizeable to a later audience as analogous to a body, maybe at least for these purposes, will attach to both AI and fake people) 

 

Theatrical presence of nonhumanity 

Wynter, Hayles, Jackson, Spivak?-->Star Trek/BSG/Westworld

 

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