An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

by Kathleen Richardson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815346468
• ISBN13: 9780815346463
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"