Concepts for E-learning & Digital Culture

The uncanny is to do with a sense of creeping strangeness, a strangeness located in ontological disturbance – ‘it is a crisis of the natural, touching upon everything that one might have thought was “part of nature”: one’s own nature, human nature, the nature of reality and the world’ (Royle 2003). […] it is to do with the unheimliche (literally, the ‘unhomely’), the familiar being rendered unfamiliar, a blurring of the boundary between the animate and the inanimate, the living and the dead, the embodied and the disembodied, the present and the past or absent.