Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People by Kakoudaki, Despina

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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… Read More

Rutgers Univ Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 6.00x9.25x1.00 inches.