After many years of running Transformations, the editors have decided it is time to close the journal – this website will cease to display on 01 April 2025. We have enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to publish so much incredible research over the years, and send our deep thanks to the hundreds of authors and peer reviewers who have committed their time and expertise to make the journal a success.
Transformations is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense. We welcome writing from the perspective of cultural theory, critical philosophy, aesthetics, media studies and other humanities approaches.
This special issue entitled Artificial Creativity aims to foment discussion around the cultural, societal, and ethical aspects of robots or AI engaged in creative production. On the one hand, one can ask: what are the possibilities and potential pitfalls of AI technologies in the cultural sector? For example, AI makes its recommendations and choices based on its exposure to large databases, and yet Lev Manovich warned about the “increasing automation of the aesthetic realm”, which might, over time, reduce cultural diversity (Manovich 85). On the other hand, AI technologies encourage debate about the meaning of creativity. Some authors suggest revisiting [...]
This special issue of Transformations explores the relevance and utility of philosophical idealism as it pertains to film theory, film analysis and film in general. Less a defence of idealist philosophy than a sympathetic reconsideration of its tenacious influence upon theoretical and hermeneutical approaches to film, the special issue houses a range of contributions whose diverse philosophical interests testify to the difficulty of reducing idealism to any narrowly defined philosophical proposition, school of thought or movement. Persuaded that there is a need to reconsider the legacy of philosophical idealism in Film Studies, we propose this issue in the hope that, [...]