Person of Westworld: figurations of living machines, memory, and trauma

J. Macgregor Wise

doi:10.1057/s41286-022-00143-6

Person of Westworld: figurations of living machines, memory, and trauma

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Figurations of the living machine in film and television map contemporary crises of subjectivity. Centered on readings of Person of Interest and Westworld, this essay describes figurations of living machine subjectivity that foreground traumatic memory. In these texts, trauma is used as a means of territorializing subjectivity, allowing for the imposition of a figuration of a disciplined individual subject in the face of the dividual swarming of societies of control.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	248-263
Number of pages	16
Journal	Subjectivity
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-022-00143-6
State	Published - Dec 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Artificial intelligence
Living machine
Memory
Television
Trauma

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology
Applied Psychology

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