An Anthropology of Robots and AI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthropology of Robots and AI write by Kathleen Richardson. This book was released on 2015-02-11. An Anthropology of Robots and AI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
An Anthropology of Robots and AI
An Anthropology of Robots and AI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthropology of Robots and AI write by Kathleen Richardson. This book was released on 2015-02-11. An Anthropology of Robots and AI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Challenging Sociality
Challenging Sociality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenging Sociality write by Kathleen Richardson. This book was released on 2018-06-30. Challenging Sociality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a “special” affinity between them and mechanical things. This idea is supported by autism experts that claim those with autism have a preference for things over other persons. Autism is also seen as a gendered condition, with men considered less social and therefore more likely to have the condition. The author explores how these experiments in cultivating social skills in children with autism using robots, while focused on a unique subsection, is the model for a new kind of human-thing relationship for wider society across the capitalist world where machines can take on the role of the “you” in the relational encounter. Moreover, underscoring this is a form of consciousness that arises out of specific forms of attachment styles.
Desire in the Age of Robots and AI
Desire in the Age of Robots and AI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desire in the Age of Robots and AI write by Rebecca Gibson. This book was released on 2019-08-24. Desire in the Age of Robots and AI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how science fiction’s portrayal of humanity’s desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires—in short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explains the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictate—and are in return recreated— by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; it’s a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.
Cyborg Theology
Cyborg Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cyborg Theology write by Scott A. Midson. This book was released on 2017-10-30. Cyborg Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway's and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals - through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden - how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, 'post-human', technologies.
