Scholars@Hallwalls: Amy Graves Monroe, “Ex machina: The Tragedy in the Machine”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesAmy Graves Monroe This talk argues for a deep connection between the rise of Pascalian probability, the interest in automata, the use of theater machines, and Aristotelian ideas of dramatic verisimilitude (i.e., likelihood) and catastrophe. As an interpretation of Aristotle, the Classical unities of time, place and action seek to formalize the circumstances of a […]