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505 0 a| Introduction: An Intimate and Distant Machine -- God and Demon, 1790-1910 -- The Republican Automaton -- Humanizing the Industrial Machine -- Mechanizing Men -- Masters and Slaves, 1910-1945 -- Symbolizing the Machine Age -- Building the Slaves of Tomorrow -- Conditioning the Robot's Brain -- A War against the Machine Age -- Playfellow and Protector, 1945-2019 -- Preserving American Innocence -- The Postindustrial Gift -- Cheerful Robots -- Epilogue: The American Robot.;

520 a| "As Dustin Abnet shows, the robot-whether automaton, Mechanical Turk, cyborg, or iPhone, whether humanized machine or mechanized human being-has long been a fraught embodiment of human fears. Abnet investigates, moreover, how the discourse of the robot has reinforced social and economic inequalities as well as fantasies of social control. "Robots" as a trope are not necessarily mechanical but are rather embodiments of quasi humanity, exhibiting a mix of human and nonhuman characteristics. Such figures are troubling to dominant discourses, which cannot easily assimilate them or identify salient boundaries. The robot lurks beneath the fears that fracture society"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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The American robot : a cultural history / Dustin A. Abnet.

Author/creator	Abnet, Dustin A. author.
Format	Electronic
Publication	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Copyright Date	©2020
Description	1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental Content	ProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects	Robots--Social aspects. Robotics--Social aspects. Electronic books.

Contents	Introduction: An Intimate and Distant Machine -- God and Demon, 1790-1910 -- The Republican Automaton -- Humanizing the Industrial Machine -- Mechanizing Men -- Masters and Slaves, 1910-1945 -- Symbolizing the Machine Age -- Building the Slaves of Tomorrow -- Conditioning the Robot's Brain -- A War against the Machine Age -- Playfellow and Protector, 1945-2019 -- Preserving American Innocence -- The Postindustrial Gift -- Cheerful Robots -- Epilogue: The American Robot.
Abstract	"As Dustin Abnet shows, the robot-whether automaton, Mechanical Turk, cyborg, or iPhone, whether humanized machine or mechanized human being-has long been a fraught embodiment of human fears. Abnet investigates, moreover, how the discourse of the robot has reinforced social and economic inequalities as well as fantasies of social control. "Robots" as a trope are not necessarily mechanical but are rather embodiments of quasi humanity, exhibiting a mix of human and nonhuman characteristics. Such figures are troubling to dominant discourses, which cannot easily assimilate them or identify salient boundaries. The robot lurks beneath the fears that fracture society"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description	Print version record.
Issued in other form	Print version: Abnet, Dustin A. American Robot : A Cultural History. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2020 9780226692715
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9780226692852 (electronic book)
ISBN	022669285X (electronic book)
ISBN	(hardcover)
ISBN	022669271X (hardcover)
ISBN	9780226692715 (hardcover)

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