Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe appears here only in passing as a cultural reference point for the Gothic aesthetics of horror and the uncanny that permeate discussions of fungal dread and biological transgression. The excerpt suggests his work on the creepy and unknowable—his influence on how we visualize organic horror—frames contemporary anxieties about non-human life forms that blur the boundary between the animate and inanimate. Rather than serving as a theoretical apparatus for the seminar's concerns with AI and cybernetics, Poe functions as a genealogical marker for the affective and imaginative lineage through which we apprehend technological and biological posthumanism.
Background
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.
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