An Anthropology of Robots and AI : Annihilation Anxiety and Machines / Kathleen Richardson.
| Author/creator | Richardson, Kathleen |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon [UK] : Routledge, 2015. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Richardson, Kathleen. An Anthropology of Robots and AI : Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015 9781138831742 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781317566960 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1317566963 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1138831743 |
| ISBN | 9781138831742 |
| ISBN | 9781315736426 |
| ISBN | 131573642X |
| ISBN | 9781317566953 |
| ISBN | 1317566955 |
| ISBN | 9781317566946 |
| ISBN | 1317566947 |
| Stock number | 1974331 Proquest Ebook Central |
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