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Author Richardson, Kathleen

Title An Anthropology of Robots and AI : Annihilation Anxiety and Machines / Kathleen Richardson
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon [UK] : Routledge, 2015

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Series Routledge studies in anthropology ; 20
Routledge studies in anthropology ; 20.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines; 1 Revolutionary Robots; 2 Out of Body Minds; 3 Social Robots; 4 The Gender of the Geek; 5 The Dissociated Robot; 6 Fantasy and Robots; Conclusion: Loving the Attachment Wounded Robot; Index
Summary This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intelligent, autonomous and social and weaved into lived social realities. Richardson charts the move away from the "worker" robot of the 1920s to the "social" one of the 2000s, as robots are reimagined as companions, friends an
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Robotics -- Social aspects
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
Robots in literature.
Artificial intelligence in literature.
73.02 philosophy and theory of ethnology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
Computers and IT.
Artificial intelligence in literature
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
Robotics -- Social aspects
Robots in literature
Künstliche Intelligenz
Roboter Motiv
Robotik
Robots -- Anthropologie.
Intelligence artificielle -- Anthropologie.
Robots -- Dans la littérature.
Intelligence artificielle -- Dans la littérature.
Robotteknik -- sociala aspekter.
Artificiell intelligens i litteraturen.
Robotar i litteraturen.
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