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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793138503321

Autore

Rhee Jennifer

Titolo

The robotic imaginary : the human and the price of dehumanized labor / / Jennifer Rhee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

ISBN

9781452957401 (ebook)

1452957401 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Robots - Moral and ethical aspects

Robots - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Caring : care labor, conversational artificial intelligence, and disembodied women -- Thinking : closed worlds, domestic labor, and situated robotics -- Feeling : emotional labor, sociable robots, and shameless androids -- Dying : drone labor, war, and the dehumanized.

Sommario/riassunto

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.--publisher.