This article traces a research arc from analogue investigations of the Lebenswelt to the emergence of AI Cinematic Realism. It shows how Kracauerian tropes migrate across media, shifting realism from indexical redemption of physical reality to synthetic emotional plausibility while preserving phenomenology as the core method and evaluative standard.
CHAIRES and the Work of Being Human with AI
CHAIRES — the Center for Human–AI Research, Ethics, and Studies — explores how intelligence, in both human and artificial forms, reshapes culture, creativity, and responsibility. Through research, creative practice, education, and policy, CHAIRES studies what it means to live, think, and create in the presence of intelligent systems.