Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Kakoudaki, Despina (1969-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Anatomy of a robot [Texte imprimé] : literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people / Despina Kakoudaki

Publication : New Brunswick, [New Jersey] ; London : Rutgers university press, 2014

Description matérielle : xi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index
"Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle's Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse-- the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. These four elements structure the representation of imaginary nonhumans. By Focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people's main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person."--Page 4 of cover

Sujet(s) : Robots -- Dans la littérature  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Robots -- Au cinéma  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Cyborgs -- Dans la littérature  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  809.933 56 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Thèmes techniques  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813562162. - ISBN 0813562163. - ISBN 9780813562155. - ISBN 0813562155. - ISBN 9780813562179 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb452841023

Notice n° :  FRBNF45284102 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction: robot anatomies ; The artificial birth ; The mechanical body ; The mechanical slave ; The existential cyborg ; Conclusion: the ends of the human.