Anatomy of a Robot : : Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People / / Despina Kakoudaki.
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...
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