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Anatomie d'un robot : littérature, cinéma et œuvre culturelle de l'artificiel...

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État
Très bon: Un livre qui n’a pas l’air neuf et qui a été lu, mais qui est en excellent état. La ...
Subject
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Robotics, Subjects & Themes / General
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Literary Criticism
ISBN
9780813562155
Publication Name
Anatomy of a Robot : Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Despina Kakoudaki
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. Artificial people teach us that being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone , the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot ), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle's Physics and De Anima , she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse-- the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people's main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813562155
ISBN-13
9780813562155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175655741

Product Key Features

Author
Despina Kakoudaki
Publication Name
Anatomy of a Robot : Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Robotics, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
15 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2013-029877
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pn56
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
Anatomy of a Robot offers an insightful analysis of the cultural work artificial people perform as they elucidate what it is to be human...a refreshing intervention in the field and impressive in its breadth., Anatomy of a Robot offers an insightful analysis of the cultural work artificial people perform as they elucidate what it is to be human; a refreshing intervention in the field and impressive in its breadth., Wide-ranging in its examples, erudite, politically relevant, and profound in its implications, this book is essential for anyone interested in our long history with created others., This book is literary criticism that looks at the robot as a trope across media, from ancient myths to modern-day movies. The book has four overarching themes that Kakoudaki presents in separate chapters: 'The Artificial Birth,' 'The Mechanical Body,' 'The Mechanical Slave,' and 'The Existential Cyborg.' [Kakoudaki provides] a great deal of historical and cultural depth, exploring a diversity of tropes across all of recorded history. Highly recommended.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Robot Anatomies 1 The Artificial Birth 2 The Mechanical Body 3 The Mechanical Slave 4 The Existential Cyborg Conclusion: The Ends of the Human Notes Index
Copyright Date
2014
Dewey Decimal
809.9335
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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