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The robotic imaginary : the human and the price of dehumanized 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 Robot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rhee, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.