Robotic Imaginary - The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Rhee JenniferPaperback / softback
Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited laborThe word robot--introduced in Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R.--derives from rabota, the Czech…
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Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited laborThe word robot--introduced in Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R.--derives from rabota, the Czech word for servitude or forced labor. A century later, the play's dystopian themes of dehumanization and exploited labor are being played out in factories, workplaces, and battlefields. In The Robotic Imaginary, Jennifer Rhee traces the provocative and productive connections of contemporary robots in technology, film, art, and literature. Centered around the twinned processes of anthropomorphization and dehumanization, she analyzes the coevolution of cultural and technological robots and artificial intelligence, arguing that it is through the conceptualization of the human and, more important, the dehumanized that these multiple spheres affect and