TY - CHAP A1 - Petersen, Christer ED - Klimczak, Peter ED - Petersen, Christer T1 - Man-Machines: Gynoids, Fembots, and Body-AI in Contemporary Cinematic Narratives T2 - AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence KW - Gender KW - AI KW - Science Fiction KW - Epistemology Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-8376-5732-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457320-009 SP - 195 EP - 222 PB - transcript CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Petersen, Christer ED - Klimczak, Peter ED - Zoglauer, Thomas T1 - Stranger than Fiction: On Alternative Facts and Fictional Epistemologies T2 - Truth and Fake in the Post-Factual Digital Age N2 - Starting from the term ‘alternative facts’ and its epistemological implications, three fields of discourse are brought together: that of the public rhetoric of a new political ‘Generation Fake’, that of postmodern or post-structuralist media theory, and that of fictional epistemologies as found in examples of postmodern literature and contemporary film. The aim of this is to examine the epistemological content of the new political rhetoric of the postfactual, on the one hand with regard to the theory of reality on which it is based, and on the other hand with regard to the theory of truth that it challenges. KW - Fake news KW - Fiction KW - Immanence KW - Coherence KW - Correspondence KW - Postmodernism KW - Conspiracy KW - Truth KW - Reality Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-658-40405-5 SP - 73 EP - 88 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER -