02406oam 22004454a 450 991079313850332120230126220219.09781452957401 (ebook)1452957401 (ebook)(CKB)4100000006937106(OCoLC)1054245897(MdBmJHUP)muse68623(MiAaPQ)EBC5522882(EXLCZ)99410000000693710620180118d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe robotic imaginary the human and the price of dehumanized labor /Jennifer RheeMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press[2018]1 online resourceDescription based upon print version of record.1-5179-0298-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.RobotsMoral and ethical aspectsRobotsSocial aspectsRobotsMoral and ethical aspects.RobotsSocial aspects.303.48/3Rhee Jennifer1544551MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910793138503321The robotic imaginary3798873UNINA