R U R Rossum S Universal Robots
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R U R
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Author : Karel Capek
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-03-05
R U R written by Karel Capek and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with Drama categories.
Must-read play looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful theatrical experience.
Automata And Mimesis On The Stage Of Theatre History
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Author : K. Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-08-26
Automata And Mimesis On The Stage Of Theatre History written by K. Reilly and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-26 with Performing Arts categories.
The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.
R U R
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Author : Karel Čapek
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-28
R U R written by Karel Čapek and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-28 with Fiction categories.
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” The play is set in the island headquarters of the R.U.R. corporation. The corporation has been manufacturing artificial beings which resemble humans, but who are tireless workers. They can be mass-produced in large numbers and are being adopted as workers in many countries. In the first scene of the play, they are visited by a young woman, Helena Glory, who aspires to relieve the lot of the robots, who she sees as oppressed. However, in what must be the fastest seduction scene in all drama, she is wooed and agrees to marry Harry Domin, the factory manager, who she has just met. She still however aspires to improve the life of robots and find a way to give them souls. Ultimately, however, this admirable desire leads to disaster for humankind. The play was translated into English, and slightly abridged, by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. This version quickly became popular with both British and American audiences and was well received by critics.
R U R Rossum S Universal Robots
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Author : Karel Capek
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2004-03-30
R U R Rossum S Universal Robots written by Karel Capek and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-30 with Fiction categories.
A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Rise Of The Self Replicators
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Author : Tim Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-30
Rise Of The Self Replicators written by Tim Taylor and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-30 with Computers categories.
Is it possible to design robots and other machines that can reproduce and evolve? And, if so, what are the implications: for the machines, for ourselves, for our environment, and for the future of life on Earth and elsewhere? In this book the authors provide a chronological survey and comprehensive archive of the early history of thought about machine self-reproduction and evolution. They discuss contributions from philosophy, science fiction, science and engineering, and uncover many examples that have never been discussed in the Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life literature before now. In the final chapter they provide a synthesis of the concepts discussed, offer their views on the field’s future directions, and call for a broad community discussion about the significant implications of intelligent evolving machines. The book will be of interest to general readers, and a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and historians engaged with ideas in artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, and evolutionary computing.
Karel Apek
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Author : Ivan Klíma
language : en
Publisher: Catbird Press
Release Date : 2002
Karel Apek written by Ivan Klíma and has been published by Catbird Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
And although originally written in Czech, the book was commissioned by Catbird Press and was therefore written with foreign readers in mind; in other words, no prior knowledge of Capek's writings or his milieu is required."--BOOK JACKET.
36 Arguments For The Existence Of God
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Author : Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2010-03-01
36 Arguments For The Existence Of God written by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Psychologist Cass Seltzer's book, The Variety of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise runaway bestseller. Dubbed 'the atheist with a soul', Cass's sudden celebrity has upended his life and brought back the ghosts of his past. Over the course of one week, Cass's theories about our need to keep faith are borne out in ways he could never have imagined. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is a stunningly original novel, which explores the varieties of the human religious experience in a story of obsession, consuming love, and divine genius. By turns hilarious, moving and devilishly clever, Goldstein's novel is an exhilarating romance of heart and mind.
The Robotic Imaginary
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Author : Jennifer Rhee
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Robotic Imaginary written by Jennifer Rhee and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor The word robot—introduced in Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R.—derives from rabota, the Czech word for servitude or forced labor. A century later, the play’s dystopian themes of dehumanization and exploited labor are being played out in factories, workplaces, and battlefields. In The Robotic Imaginary, Jennifer Rhee traces the provocative and productive connections of contemporary robots in technology, film, art, and literature. Centered around the twinned processes of anthropomorphization and dehumanization, she analyzes the coevolution of cultural and technological robots and artificial intelligence, arguing that it is through the conceptualization of the human and, more important, the dehumanized that these multiple spheres affect and transform each other. Drawing on the writings of Alan Turing, Sara Ahmed, and Arlie Russell Hochschild; such films and novels as Her and The Stepford Wives; technologies like Kismet (the pioneering “emotional robot”); and contemporary drone art, this book explores anthropomorphic paradigms in robot design and imagery in ways that often challenge the very grounds on which those paradigms operate in robotics labs and industry. From disembodied, conversational AI and its entanglement with care labor; embodied mobile robots as they intersect with domestic labor; emotional robots impacting affective labor; and armed military drones and artistic responses to drone warfare, The Robotic Imaginary ultimately reveals how the human is made knowable through the design of and discourse on humanoid robots that are, paradoxically, dehumanized.
R U R Rossum S Universal Robots
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Author : Karel Čapek
language : en
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Release Date : 1923
R U R Rossum S Universal Robots written by Karel Čapek and has been published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Czech drama categories.
Rur
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Author : Kateřina Čupová
language : it
Publisher: Miraggi Edizioni
Release Date : 2022-03-20
Rur written by Kateřina Čupová and has been published by Miraggi Edizioni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-20 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
RUR Rossum’s Universal Robots è originariamente il testo teatrale che, nel 1920, introduce nella cultura mondiale il termine “robot”. La storia, una delle prime distopie del XX secolo, racconta le tragiche conseguenze innescate dalla creazione di un uomo artificiale, organico ma apparentemente privo di quelle caratteristiche che rendono l’uomo debole e fallibile, come i sentimenti, i bisogni e il libero arbitrio – in una parola, l’anima. Tuttavia nessuna creatura può essere radicalmente diversa dal suo creatore e i robot di Karel Čapek, prodotti come beni di consumo per sollevare gli esseri umani dalle fatiche del lavoro fisico, sanno essere solidali tra loro, ribelli e violenti come gli uomini che li hanno costruiti. Nella storia di RUR si riflettono le grandi paure del Novecento di fronte all’avanzata del totalitarismo bolscevico, della vertiginosa corsa del progresso tecnico-scientifico, della disumanizzazione delle masse e delle ingiustizie sociali del capitalismo industriale. RUR è un «ammonimento alla società tecnologica, perché si avveda in tempo del baratro in cui sta precipitando». Di questo nobile fine letterario e sociale, tuttavia, rimarranno nella cultura di massa solo la parola “robot” e la spettacolarizzazione della tecnologia, che daranno vita a un ricco filone fantascientifico sia letterario che cinematografico che ha successo ancora oggi, dopo più di un secolo. Josef e Karel ČapeK e l’invenzione della parola “robot” «Ehi, Josef,» esordì l’autore «mi è venuta un’idea per un’opera». «Che idea?» bofonchiò il pittore (e bofonchiò davvero, visto che teneva tra le labbra un pennello). L’autore gliela spiegò nel modo più conciso possibile. «E allora scrivila» ribatté il pittore, senza smettere di lavorare alla tela, col pennello ancora in bocca. la sua indifferenza era quasi offensiva. «È che non so come chiamarli, gli operai artificiali,» continuò l’autore «avevo pensato a labor, ma mi sembra un po’ troppo libresco». «E allora chiamali robot» borbottò il pittore con il pennello tra le labbra, continuando a dipingere. E così fu. Ecco dunque in che modo è nata la parola robot; che sia quindi attribuita al suo reale inventore.