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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Finnegan, Lizzie
• Engels, Kimberly S
• South, James B

Titel

Narrating Gender, Gendering Narrative, and Engendering Wittgenstein's “Rough Ground” in Westworld

Ist Teil von

• Westworld and Philosophy, 2018, p.150-161

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter talks about how two robot hosts of Westworld, Dolores Abernathy and Maeve Millay, are operating within what philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein calls “language games”. At the heart of the revolutionary nature of the language game is Wittgenstein's insistence on binding saying to saying what counts. The chapter enlists Wittgenstein's critique of the theory of an “ideal” language that could perfectly represent reality for the author's own critique of the “ideal” picture of narrative with in Westworld. This “ideal” is amplified by glorified violence, the objectification of women, profoundly rigid and heteronormative gender roles, and an ineluctable longing for transcendence. On the smooth, slippery surface of the “ideal” narratives of the Westworld universe, Dolores and Maeve are losing traction. What they need is to get back to the rough ground; but first they will need to learn how to create their own new language games to get there.