Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past...
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Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation by Robertson, Jennifer

Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

$580.25

Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

$580.25
Author: Jennifer Robertson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots--humanoids, androids, and animaloids--are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.




Author: Jennifer Robertson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/10/2017
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780520283206

About the Author
Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is author of Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan and Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City.

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