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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kakoudaki, Despina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: robot anatomies
  • The artificial birth
  • The mechanical body
  • The mechanical slave
  • The existential cyborg
  • Conclusion: the ends of the human.