Anatomy of a robot : literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people / Despina Kakoudaki.

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Kakoudaki, Despina [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813562179
0813562171
132211112X
9781322111124

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anatomy of a robotDDC classification:

809/.93356 23

LOC classification:

PN56.R56 K35 2014eb

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Contents:

Introduction: robot anatomies -- The artificial birth -- The mechanical body -- The mechanical slave -- The existential cyborg -- Conclusion: the ends of the human.

Summary: 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 bein.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index.

Introduction: robot anatomies -- The artificial birth -- The mechanical body -- The mechanical slave -- The existential cyborg -- Conclusion: the ends of the human.

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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 bein.

English.

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