Deception: Essays from the Outis Project on Deception / 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?