Deception

ed. by Paul Majkut

Co-Ed. by Alberto J. L. Carrillo Canán,

Deception

An anthology of essays delivered at the five annual conferences of the Outis Project on Deception, sponsored by the Society for Phenomenology and Media.

The essays included in this anthology are the result a research project sponsored by the Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM). Delivered at meetings of the Outis Project on Deception at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2002), Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003), Jyväskylä University and the Haaga Institute, Helsinki, Finland (2005), and National University, San Diego, California (2006, 2007), these essays represent a range of approaches to questions of deception. They were originally published in the journal of the project, Outis: Deception.Topics and approaches range through animal behavior, anthropology, architecture, biology, computer-generated characters, cultural studies, cyberspace, education, epistemology, dance, film, history, imagination, literature, phenomenology, psychology, magic, media, naming, ontology, play, psychoanalysis, the tango, technology, television, and others.

The title of the Project, “Outis,” is taken from Odysseus’ deceptive reply to Polyphemous while imprisoned in the Cyclops’ cave. When Polyphemous asks Odysseus his name, he replies, “Outis (Nobody).”The Outis Project was inspired by questions posed in Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: How far can the transcendental ego be deceived about himself? And how far do those components extend that are absolutely indubitable, in spite of such possible deception?

Contents

Paul Majkut: Introduction

Monika Bakke: Transparent Body
Susana Raquel Barbosa: History and Deception from Machiavelli to Nietzsche
Carlos A. Basch: Identity / Deception
Tobias Borup: “The Arrival of a Train” and a New Aesthetic Principle
Melanie Bourdaa: Deception and Reality Shows
Alberto J. L. Carrillo Canán: Media and Deception
Kurt Cline: Magic and Legerdemain: The Wonder Worker behind the Charlatan’s Mask
Oscar Conde: Deception out of Love in Tango Lyrics
Tracy Powell Dalke: Deception in the Air: Rational Cognitive Survival
Kathryn S. Egan: The Soul Factor: Deception in Intimations of Life in Computer-Generated Characters
Esteban Garcia: The Tool as an Extension of the Body: Technological Illusion
Maria Golaszewska: The Problem of Truth and Falsehood in the Anthroposphere
Julia V. Iribarne: On Deception: A Phenomenological Approach
Matti Itkonen: The Eidos-Ego in its Transparent Globe: The Impossibility of Consecutive Module Thinking in the Philosophy of Education
Jussi Kotkavirta: But Is It Real? On Self-Deception and Derealization
Paul Majkut: The Selflessness of Transcendental Deception
Christopher Moffett: Sleight of Philosophy: Moving Between Wonder and Paranoia in Teaching and Learning
Michaela Ott: Deception as a Way of Becoming a Political Agent
Catherine Pascal: Disappointment and Virtuality: From Cyberspace to the Human Body: Imagination or Deception?
Maria Cristina Reigadas: Deception as a Cultural Style: Some Reflections on Argentine Beliefs
Victor Gerald Rivas: From Deception to Enlightenment: A Reflection on the Baroque Conception of Individual Life
Dennis Skocz: Deception, Self-deception and the Play of Illusion
Christina Smerick: Deception in the Classroom: Its Power, Locus, and Heuristic Intent
Krystyna Wilkoszewska: On the Phenomenon of “Deception”: The Example of Odysseus
Piotr Winskowski: Self-explanation of Deception in Temporal, Spatial Experience
Raúl A. Yafar: Emptiness and Sense of the Name