Reconfiguring Emotion: Posthuman Subjectivity, Somatic Simulation, and AI-Mediated Affect in The Great Flood

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21515037

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to examine how the posthuman subject is portrayed in the film The Great Flood. The study aims to highlight the use of artificial intelligence to mediate emotion and somatic simulation transforms conventional affective experiences. In this film, emotions like sorrow and happiness have nothing to do with being alive or having a body; they are just data that can be engineered with AI. The research highlights that artificial intelligence has the capacity to regulate as well as mimic human emotional responses. It will also consider Antonio Damasio’s somatic marker hypothesis, while hinting that The Great Flood runs counter to the idea that feelings naturally arise from our bodies by transforming them into manipulable digital data. This study contributes to posthuman research by empirically examining artificial intelligence-mediated effects present in the films.