
An Anthropology of Robots and AI
Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
Kathleen Richardson(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2015
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-1-138-83174-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 and therapeutic agents.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-83174-2 (9781138831742)
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Person
Kathleen Richardson is Senior Research Fellow in the Ethics of Robotics in the School for Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Content
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