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Uncanny valley, and other adventures in the narrative, Lawrence Weschler

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

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non fiction

Uncanny valley

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Lawrence Weschler

and other adventures in the narrative

"Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have been captivating readers ever since his days at The New Yorker. With Uncanny Valley, he furthers that vivid trajectory, collecting the best of his narrative nonfiction from the past fifteen years."--P. [2] of jacket

Uncanny Valley: on the digital animation of the face -- Four easy pieces. On coming face-to-face with myself -- Torqued brueghel -- Motes in the light -- The judd ant -- Three improbably yarns. Mr. Wilson in Belgrade -- The poem on the train: a letter to the editor of The Threepenny Review -- Popocatepetl (My grandfather's geographical and my medical fugue) -- Some probes into the terrain of human rights. Sentries (with Richard Avedon) -- Swallowed up in Rwanda -- Exceptional cases in Rome: the United States and the international criminal court -- Gazing back: the disappeared -- A Berlin epiphany -- Four walkabouts. Waking up to how we sleepwalk -- Dario Fo on Broadway -- Tomislav Gotovac: naked in Zagreb -- Sharon Lockhart: the Nō film -- Five further adventures in the narrative. Splendors of decaying celluloid: on Bill Morrison's Decasia -- Still not finished: on Vincent Desiderio's Sleep -- Valkyries over Iraq: Walter Murch, Apocalypse Now, Jarhead, and the trouble with war movies -- Double vision: the perspectival journey of the Oakes twins -- Blockage and grace: Mark Salzman lying awake -- Afterword: On grace and narrative and the current state of the Uncanny Valley