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Anatomy of a Robot : Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People /
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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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