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  1. Anatomy of a robot
    literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813562179; 0813562171
    RVK Categories: AP 59783 ; HU 1691
    Series: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Subjects: Cyborgs in motion pictures; Robots in motion pictures; Cyborgs in literature; Robots in literature
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  2. Anatomy of a robot
    literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey

    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,... more

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    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. Artificial people teach us that bein

     

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