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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[2014]
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse— the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people’s main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019) |
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| spelling | Kakoudaki, Despina Verfasser aut Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People Despina Kakoudaki New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2014] © 2014 1 online resource 26 photographs txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019) 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 being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse— the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people’s main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person In English Geschichte gnd rswk-swf LITERARY CRITICISM / General bisacsh Cyborgs in literature Cyborgs in motion pictures Robots in literature Robots in motion pictures Künstlicher Mensch (DE-588)4136044-8 gnd rswk-swf Film (DE-588)4017102-4 gnd rswk-swf Roboter Motiv (DE-588)4391673-9 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Film (DE-588)4017102-4 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Roboter Motiv (DE-588)4391673-9 s Geschichte z 1\p DE-604 Künstlicher Mensch (DE-588)4136044-8 s 2\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813562179 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People |
| title_auth | Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People |
| title_exact_search | Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People |
| title_full | Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People Despina Kakoudaki |
| title_fullStr | Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People Despina Kakoudaki |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anatomy of a Robot Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People Despina Kakoudaki |
| title_short | Anatomy of a Robot |
| title_sort | anatomy of a robot literature cinema and the cultural work of artificial people |
| title_sub | Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People |
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| topic_facet | LITERARY CRITICISM / General Cyborgs in literature Cyborgs in motion pictures Robots in literature Robots in motion pictures Künstlicher Mensch Film Roboter Motiv Literatur USA |
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