Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology
In his paper ‘The Uncanny Valley’ (1970), Masahiro Mori advises designers to avoid high degrees of human likeness in prosthetic body parts in order not to evoke uncanniness. Building on a discussion of the difference in the commonly experienced uncanniness of ‘realistic’ looking prosthetic hands and...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Body, Space & Technology Journal |
| Online Access: | https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/47 |