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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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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.