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02294aam a2200337 i 4500 001 DD0FE38CEDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200903010031 008 190826t20202020ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019037835 020 $a 022669271X 020 $a 9780226692715 035 $a (OCoLC)1111974983 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d TOH $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TJ211 A34 2020 100 1 $a Abnet, Dustin A. $e author. 245 14 $a The American robot : $b a cultural history / $c Dustin A. Abnet. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 376, pages : $b illustraions ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 650 0 $a Robots $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Robotics $x Social aspects. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780226692852 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043209.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20220128010320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD0FE38CEDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search