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The study represents a partial output of research on the culture of artificial neural networks, as the authors call the cultural complex, in which a number of different actants participate (technologies, their users, results of the generation process, their recipients, media, etc.) and which is constituted by language games that have a performative function. The aim of this study is to conduct a media-archaeological insight into the imaginative layer of these language games and to point out that one of the sources of neural network culture is precisely the deeply historically anchored technological imagination. The genealogy of this imagination is traced in the study from its ancient origins to the 1950s, when the idea of the artificial mind was transformed into a scientific theorem and founded the research field of artificial intelligence. In this way, the paper draws attention to the fact that when we think and talk about artificial intelligence, we are talking about a set of imaginations that should not be confused with reality, but rather treated as technological fictions.
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Technological imagination as a source of the culture of neural networks

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<italic>From William Byrd’s 18th-century “lubbers” of the North Carolina backcountry through the deviant gun-toting hicks with missing teeth from John Boorman’s survival thriller</italic> Deliverance <italic>(1972) to Darlene Snell from Netflix’s recent crime drama series</italic> Ozark <italic>(2016), the stereotype of the “hillbilly” has been one of the most pervasive images in American popular culture. This image has been usually associated with mountaineers inhabiting either the Appalachians or the Ozarks, and it has portrayed them as dirty, lazy, ignorant, often mean, violent and dangerous. Since the beginning of the 20th century, it has been popularized by film, music, and, starting with the Depression Era, also by comic strips such as Al Capp’s</italic> Li’l Abner, <italic>which shaped all subsequent depictions of these mountain folk. This article considers the depiction of hillbillies in comics with a focus on horror comics published by EC in the early 1950s.</italic>
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The Hillbilly Stereotype in Horror Comics

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<italic>Samuel Beckett’s Come and Go (1965) is about three women whose conversations are both audible and inaudible due to each one’s whispering whenever two of them are alone and the other is out of sight. This paper focuses on the film version of</italic> Come and Go – <italic>directed by John Crowley in 2000</italic> – <italic>as part of the Beckett on</italic> Film <italic>project, which transferred Beckett’s 19 stage-plays to the screen. Drawing upon Mladen Dolar’s theorization of the object voice, this paper aims to analyse how Crowley renders Beckett accessible for contemporary audiences in cinematic terms, with a specific focus on the whisper scenes</italic>.
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Shhh!: Whisper cycle in John Crowley’s rendition of Samuel Beckett’s <italic>Come and</italic> Go

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<italic>This article revisits two well-known novels in Indian diasporic writing</italic>, Anita and Me <italic>(1996) by Meera Syal and</italic> The Namesake <italic>(2003) by Jhumpa Lahiri, to examine the cultural agents behind the formation and sustenance of the Indian diaspora. The article first establishes the multivalence of food to understand Indian literature and culture and then contextualizes the novel into the tradition of Indian diasporic food writing. By focusing on the culinary discourses in the novel, the article argues that Indian women employ their culinary strategies and ingenuities to produce a cultural version of Indianness, central to the construction of the Indian diaspora. The article draws the theoretical framework from Anita Mannur’s postcolonial concept of “kitchen Indians” to unravel the structural working of gender roles that operate at the foundation of the Indian diaspora</italic>.
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(En)gendering diaspora: Negotiating food, culture and women in select Indian diasporic novels

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<italic>The prosaist Marek Vadas is a contemporary Slovak writer who has won several literary prizes. A unique part of his bibliography is represented by short stories inspired by African culture and environment. The main objective of this paper is to analyse via interpretation these stories and to prove the role of the African environment in the process of creating the magical as a quality of expression. Stories from the following collections are looked at:</italic> Liečitef’, Čierne na čiernom, <italic>and</italic> Zlá štvrt’. <italic>The methodological approach of the interpretation is based on the theory of František Miko and his system of expression categories. The portrayed image of Africa interpreted in this contribution proceeds from Vadas’s personal experience. We conclude that the unique African element in his work adds to the magical quality of expression, which is based on the coaction of several elements: different cultural experience, thematic scheme, blend of multiple qualities of expression and of compositional techniques. The final magical quality of expression represents the specificity of Vadas’s writing style</italic>.
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The foreign atmosphere of Africa as part of magical expression in the fiction of Marek Vadas

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<italic>The paper deals with cultural phenomena</italic> – <italic>realia and precedent phenomena</italic> – <italic>in the novel by contemporary Slovak author Pavol Rankov:</italic> Svätý mäsiar zo Šamorína a iné príbehy z čias Malej dunajskej vojny <italic>[The Holy Butcher of Šamorín and Other Stories from the Time of the Lesser Danube War, 2016] and in its German translation</italic> Der Kleine Donaukrieg <italic>(2022). The novel depicts a fictional war between Slovakia and Hungary, with its specific feature being the clash of several cultures and linguo-cultural spaces (Slovak, Hungarian, Roma, Czech) on the linguistic and extra-linguistic levels. The paper presents an interpretative probe into the analysed novel as well as a theoretical definition of the types of cultural phenomena in translation communication, focusing on the ambiguity of the rendering and definition of the “own” and “foreign” in a literary text. In the comparative analysis of the original work and its German translation, we focus on the interpretative, receptive and translational specificities of realia and precedent phenomena reflecting the Roma and Slovak linguo-cultural space</italic>.
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The “own” vs the “foreign” in the German translation of Pavol Rankov’s novel <italic>Svätý mäsiar zo Šamorína a iné príbehy z čias Malej dunajskej vojny</italic>1

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Volume 15 (2023): Issue 2 (December 2023)

Technological imagination as a source of the culture of neural networks

The Hillbilly Stereotype in Horror Comics

Shhh!: Whisper cycle in John Crowley’s rendition of Samuel Beckett’s Come and Go

(En)gendering diaspora: Negotiating food, culture and women in select Indian diasporic novels

The foreign atmosphere of Africa as part of magical expression in the fiction of Marek Vadas

The “own” vs the “foreign” in the German translation of Pavol Rankov’s novel Svätý mäsiar zo Šamorína a iné príbehy z čias Malej dunajskej vojny¹

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Ars Aeterna

Volume 15 (2023): Issue 2 (December 2023)

Technological imagination as a source of the culture of neural networks

The Hillbilly Stereotype in Horror Comics

Shhh!: Whisper cycle in John Crowley’s rendition of Samuel Beckett’s Come and Go

(En)gendering diaspora: Negotiating food, culture and women in select Indian diasporic novels

The foreign atmosphere of Africa as part of magical expression in the fiction of Marek Vadas

The “own” vs the “foreign” in the German translation of Pavol Rankov’s novel Svätý mäsiar zo Šamorína a iné príbehy z čias Malej dunajskej vojny1

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The “own” vs the “foreign” in the German translation of Pavol Rankov’s novel Svätý mäsiar zo Šamorína a iné príbehy z čias Malej dunajskej vojny¹