Outputs (10)

“Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies (2021)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2021). “Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies. In S. Maasen, & D. Atwood (Eds.), Immanente Religion - Transzendente Technologie : Technologiediskurse und gesellschaftliche Grenzüberschreitungen (193-223). Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich

Warnings about climate change often come wrapped in apocalyptic language and scenarios, often as a rhetorical strategy to convey the sense of urgency with which action is required. Similarly, technologies that promise to deliver us from the impending... Read More about “Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies.

Sport as Bodily Practice of Remembrance : Remembering Heroes, Remembering Nations (2020)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2020). Sport as Bodily Practice of Remembrance : Remembering Heroes, Remembering Nations. In M. Mäder, A. Saviello, & B. Scolari (Eds.), Highgate Cemetery : Image Practices in Past and Present (149-172). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845294520

Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film (2016)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. D. (2016). Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film. In M. Hauskeller, T. D. Philbeck, & C. D. Carbonell (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (330-338). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430328_33

In its Riley v. California ruling requiring the police to get a search warrant to access mobile phone content, the US Supreme Court argued that: ‘modern cell phones, (…) are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial vi... Read More about Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film.

Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’ (2015)
Book Chapter
Gonzalez-Arnal, S. (2015). Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’. In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (107-127). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press

In this chapter I argue, against Mary Midgley, that the ‘yuk’ feeling that is elicited by chimeras should not be taken into account when making moral evaluations of the kind of biotechnology that creates them (‘algeny’, according to Midgley). She lin... Read More about Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’.

Rotoscoping uncanny bodies: Animation technology, animation aesthetics (2015)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. M. (2015). Rotoscoping uncanny bodies: Animation technology, animation aesthetics. In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (143-160). Oxford UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press

Of Imprints and Metaphors: The Construction of Stubburn Bodies in the Science Fiction Film Chrysalis (2015)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2015). Of Imprints and Metaphors: The Construction of Stubburn Bodies in the Science Fiction Film Chrysalis. In A. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological, and Aesthetic Perspectives (209-230). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press

Towards a ‘circuit of technological imaginaries’ A theoretical approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2015). Towards a ‘circuit of technological imaginaries’ A theoretical approach. In D. Pezzoli-Olgiati (Ed.), Religion in cultural imaginary - explorations in visual and material practices (9-38). Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Bodies in and out of place: Django Unchained and body-spaces (2014)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2014). Bodies in and out of place: Django Unchained and body-spaces. In O. C. Speck (Ed.), Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained: The continuation of metacinema (93-122). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Disruptive Violence as Means to Create a Space for Reflection. Thoughts on Tarantino's Attempts at Audience Irritation (2012)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2012). Disruptive Violence as Means to Create a Space for Reflection. Thoughts on Tarantino's Attempts at Audience Irritation. In R. von Dassanowsky (Ed.), Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds : A Manipulation of Metacinema (215 - 245). New York: Continuum

Cat and Mouse. Haneke's Joy in the Spectator's Distress (2010)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2010). Cat and Mouse. Haneke's Joy in the Spectator's Distress. In A. D. Ornella, & S. Knauss (Eds.), Fascinatingly Disturbing. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke’s Cinema (145-166). Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications