Bizarre marriages: Weddings as a form of legitimization of intimate relations with non-human agents

Jan Stasieńko

doi:10.6092/1827-9198/3669

Jan Stasieńko University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/3669

Keywords: posthuman weddings, objectum sexuals, non-human intimacies

Abstract

The article presents a case of a wedding between Nintendo DS user Sal9000 and a game character Nene Anegasaki from Love Plus as an example of the broader practice of marrying material and immaterial objects distinctive for the Objectum Sexuals community. The paper examines the modes of intimacy and communication protocols built among humans and objects and presents the pseudo-legal acts of marriage as manifestos of the openness towards the post-human connectivity.

Il dott Jan Stasienko è direttore e fondatore del programma Digital Media and CMC ed è professore associato del dipartimento di Giornalismo e Comunicazione, presso l’Università di Lower Silesia in Polonia. E cofondatore del cluster multimediale Creativro; nel 2010-2011 è visiting scholar del dipartimento di Comunicazione al Suny College di Brockport e al Centro per Digital Media di Vancouver; già presidente dell’associazione di ricerca sui giochi della Polonia. Ambiti di interesse: ludologia, storia e archeologia dei (nuovi) media, antropologia degli effetti speciali; attualmente svolge ricerca focalizzata sull’analisi postumana di specifiche tecnologie visive (peep show, prompter, blue box ecc.).

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Author Biography

Jan Stasieńko, University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw

Dr. Jan Stasienko is founding head of Digital Media and CMC Program in University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland; cofounder of multimedia cluster Creativro; visiting scholar in the Suny College at Brockport and in the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver (2010-2011); former vice-president of Games Research Association of Poland; field of interests: ludology, history and archeology of (new) media, anthropology of VFX, media technologies and posthuman intimacy.