Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture:
Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an
interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about
the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely
and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology
and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be
utilized in contemporary society. This text interrogates how the
domestic slaves of the past are being re-imaged as domestic robots of
the future. Hampton asserts that the rhetoric used to persuade an
entire nation to become dependent on the institution of chattel
slavery will be employed to promote the enslavement of technology in
the form of humanoid robots with Artificial Intelligence. Imagining
Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture makes the
claim that science fiction, film, and popular culture have all been
used to normalize the notion of robots in domestic spaces and
relationships. In examining the similarities of human slaves and
mechanical or biomechanical robots, this text seeks to gain a better
understanding of how slaves are created and justified in the
imaginations of a supposedly civilized nation. And in doing so, give
pause to those who would disassociate America’s past from its
imminent future.
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ISBN
9780739191460
Publisert
2015
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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