An Anthropology of Robots and AI : Annihilation Anxiety and Machines / Kathleen Richardson.

Author/creator Richardson, Kathleen
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PublicationNew York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon [UK] : Routledge, 2015.
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SeriesRoutledge studies in anthropology ; 20
Routledge studies in anthropology 20. ^A529522
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.
Abstract 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Richardson, Kathleen. An Anthropology of Robots and AI : Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015 9781138831742
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