ISBN:
9783030240172
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (147 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
809.93356
Keywords:
Robots in literature
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Gears and Wires of Robot Sex -- Introduction -- Glossary -- Science Fiction Versus Science Fact: The Stories We Tell Ourselves -- Stories Against the Dark -- Are We Alone Together? -- The Desire to Create: Frankenstein, Robotics, and Playing God -- The Fetishizing of What We Create: Sex-Bots, Sex-Slaves, and Freud's Psychosexual -- Androids Among Us: Biomechanical Creations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: What Defines Reality?: Robot/Android Self-Knowledge and Authenticity -- Synopsis -- Authenticity: What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- Institutions and Androids-Does a Being Without Emotions Have a Panopticon? -- Deckard: Authentic Human, or Manufactured Android? -- The Rachael/Pris Dichotomy: Doubling or Halving? -- The Gender Binary, Traditional Gender Roles, and Early Robotic Technology -- What Is the Opposite of a Manifesto? Daily Cyborgs, Daily Lives -- Rachael Passes-Judaism as a Metaphor -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Incep Dates and Pleasure Models: Death, Life, and Love in Blade Runner -- Synopsis -- The Undetectable Replicant: Why Must We Mimic Humanity? -- Gender Roles Again?: Deckard's Lack of Emotion, Rachael's Humanity, and the Question of Replicant Gender -- For His Pleasure: What Meets the Definition of Sex Robotics? -- The Rachael/Pris Dichotomy: Cartesian Dualism and Replicants -- Death as Representative of Human Likeness and Humanity -- Race and Racialization: Why Does LA Look like Japan? -- Developments in Robotics: 1980-2000-Cognition, Neuromorphic Chips, and Biofeedback -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Angel Replicants and Solid Holograms: Blade Runner 2049 and Its Impact on Robotics -- Synopsis -- What Is in a Name?: The Functional and Metaphorical Contrast of the Joi/Luv Dichotomy.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Permalink