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ROBO SAPIENS JAPANICUS - ROBOTS, GENDER, FAMILY, AND THE JAPANESE NATION

‏184.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780520283206
יצא לאור ב
Berkerley
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
280
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
1 בנוב׳ 2017
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots-humanoids, androids, animaloids-are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 280
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 0520283201
יצא לאור ב Berkerley
תאריך יציאה לאור 1 בנוב׳ 2017
תוכן עניינים List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Notes 1. Robot Visions 2. Innovation as Renovation 3. Families of Future Past 4. Embodiment and Gender 5. Robot Rights vs. Human Rights 6. Cyborg-Ableism beyond the Uncanny (Valley) 7. Robot Reality Check Notes Bibliography Index
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים