The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor
Author:   Jennifer Rhee
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9781517902971


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jennifer Rhee
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781517902971


ISBN 10:   1517902975
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: All Too Dehumanized 1. Caring: Care Labor, Conversational Artificial Intelligence, and Disembodied Women 2. Thinking: Closed Worlds, Domestic Labor, and Situated Robotics 3. Feeling: Emotional Labor, Sociable Robots, and Shameless Androids 4. Dying: Drone Labor, War, and the Dehumanized Epilogue. The Human: That Which We Have Yet to Know Acknowledgments Notes Index

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The Robotic Imaginary persuasively shows how contemporary depictions of robots and AI offer unique insight into both the governing conceptions of the human (of who does and doesn't count as fully human) and the gendered and racialized ways in which we are currently imagining and constructing labor. -Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative The Robotic Imaginary is a profound contribution to our comprehension of `the human,' read through technocultures of artificial intelligence and robotics. Jennifer Rhee makes an incisive and compelling argument for the connections between histories of devalued labor and of the dehumanized Other, and the limits of identification and knowability as the basis for an ethics of caring, thinking, feeling, and dying. -Lucy Suchman, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions


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Jennifer Rhee is assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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