Publication Date
Spring 4-16-2025
Presentation Length
15 minutes
College
Watkins College of Art
Department
Art, Department of
Student Level
Undergraduate
SPARK Category
Art
Faculty Advisor
Kristi Hargrove
SPARK Session
I think it's in section 2:00–3:00, but it looks like my group is presenting during multiple sessions and I'm not sure which one I'll be in.
Presentation Type
Talk/Oral
Summary
The internet is the most perfect incarnation of a process that has repeated across centuries and networks. In the mind, we call it psychosis, in society, we call it religion, and on the internet, it is becoming the singularity. My comic, ELDERNET,
is a cyberweird analysis and critique of the internet as the collective locus of the unconscious. Drawing inspiration from media from French post-structuralist philosophy to 1920s Weird Fiction, I reveal the representations of horror within the automatic network.
Recommended Citation
Davenport, Samuel, "The Cybernetic Unconscious" (2025). SPARK Symposium Presentations. 517.
https://repository.belmont.edu/spark_presentations/517
