Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

by Mark Kingwell

Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein's monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many other less mainstream cultural artifacts. The source of this anxiety is clear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228014344
• ISBN13: 9780228014348
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 8.7"