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Rhee, Jennifer

 
9781517902988: The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor
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ISBN 10 : 1517902983 ISBN 13 : 9781517902988
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor


The word robot--introduced in Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R.--derives from rabota, the Czech word for servitude or forced labor. A century later, the play's dystopian themes of dehumanization and exploited labor are being played out in factories, workplaces, and battlefields. In The Robotic Imaginary, Jennifer Rhee traces the provocative and productive connections of contemporary robots in technology, film, art, and literature. Centered around the twinned processes of anthropomorphization and dehumanization, she analyzes the coevolution of cultural and technological robots and artificial intelligence, arguing that it is through the conceptualization of the human and, more important, the dehumanized that these multiple spheres affect and transform each other.

Drawing on the writings of Alan Turing, Sara Ahmed, and Arlie Russell Hochschild; such films and novels as Her and The Stepford Wives; technologies like Kismet (the pioneering "emotional robot"); and contemporary drone art, this book explores anthropomorphic paradigms in robot design and imagery in ways that often challenge the very grounds on which those paradigms operate in robotics labs and industry. From disembodied, conversational AI and its entanglement with care labor; embodied mobile robots as they intersect with domestic labor; emotional robots impacting affective labor; and armed military drones and artistic responses to drone warfare, The Robotic Imaginary ultimately reveals how the human is made knowable through the design of and discourse on humanoid robots that are, paradoxically, dehumanized.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Rhee is assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1517902983
ISBN 13 
9781517902988
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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