Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People
por Despina Kakoudaki
- Novo
- Brochura
- Condição
- Novo
- ISBN 10
- 0813562155
- ISBN 13
- 9780813562155
- Livreiro
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Paperback / softback. New. 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 analysing 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.
Avaliações
(Entrar ou Criar uma conta primeiro!)
Detalhes
- Livreiro
- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- A9780813562155
- Título
- Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People
- Autor
- Despina Kakoudaki
- Formato/Encadernação
- Paperback / softback
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0813562155
- ISBN 13
- 9780813562155
- Editorial
- Rutgers University Press
- Local de publicação
- New Brunswick, Nj And London
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2014
Termos da venda
The Saint Bookstore
Refunds or Returns: A full refund of the price paid will be given if returned within 30 days in undamaged condition. If the product is faulty, we may send a replacement.
Sobre o Vendedor
The Saint Bookstore
Membro de Biblio desde 2018
Southport, Merseyside
Sobre The Saint Bookstore
The Saint Bookstore specialises in hard to find titles & also offers delivery worldwide for reasonable rates.
Glossário
Alguns termos que podem ser usados ??nesta descrição incluem:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...