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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 381–395.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . (1920) 2004 . R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) . New York : Penguin . Dirque . 1990 . “ Julia Killing Contest Round 2 and 3 .” alt.mud Usenet group, February 25 . https://groups.google.com/g/alt.mud/c/PwNxv8Yn_IY/m/EfQztuOn4AwJ . Foner Leonard . 1993 . “ What’s an Agent...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
... (in the case of GPT-3) of language that issues from a program that has a model only of language, not of the world. Conscious robots, when and if they emerge, will have profoundly different embodiments than humans. Fictions that imagine conscious robots thus face a similar challenge presented by the GPT-3 texts...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 397–413.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . vN . By Madeline Ashby . Nottingham : Angry Robot . 2012 . 416 pp. Paper, $12.99 ; e-book, $6.99 . iD . By Madeline Ashby . Nottingham : Angry Robot . 2013 . 320 pp. Paper, $14.99 ; e-book, $6.99 . reV . By Madeline Ashby . Nottingham : Angry Robot . 2020...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 June 2023
... ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 In Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures , Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora (2019) observe that under capitalism transnational media and corporate promotional accounts...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 418–420.
Published: 01 June 2015
... technologies argue against the assumption that checks
are built right in.
Swirski’s book is not a celebration of cyborgian hybridity or AI, but rather a
reasoned fear of an unthinking pursuit of thinking machines. I was reminded
of Zach Weiner’s 2013 comic showing a robot at a terminal logging...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 579–602.
Published: 01 September 2004
... to the experience of a materiality that is both desubstan-
tialized and supersaturating, subject to both lightning-swift consolida-
tions and dispersals and to humiliating, vegetally slow decay? A first
text for consideration:
What gets me is
the robots are doing
my job, but I don’t get...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 729–753.
Published: 01 December 2023
... figure in early order cybernetics, who created “robot tortoises” to model how the brain functions by programming the tortoises to travel toward light. Walter ( 1950 : 43) even claimed that his robotic tortoises exhibited self-awareness: “[The robots] illustrate particularly the exploratory, speculative...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 719–744.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... of Minnesota Press . Klein Christina . 2003 . Cold War Orientalism . Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Lee Leo Ou-Fan . 1999 . Shanghai Modern . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . Liu Lydia . 2010 . The Freudian Robot . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 435–438.
Published: 01 June 2023
... century. Representations of AI and intelligent robots have been common throughout video game history, ranging from nonplayer to player characters. Some representations of AI antagonists include AM in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams and the Dreamers Guild, 1995), GLaDOS in Portal...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... technologies, Lindsay Thomas on robotics, R. Joshua Scannell on race, Patrick Jagoda on the intersections of AI and video games, and Christopher Grobe on digital assistants and conversational AI. 23 Here we note the many ways that critical AI applies and builds on, variously, the new materialism...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 429–433.
Published: 01 June 2023
... that artificial intelligence must have anything to do with silicon or programmers. Dinkins’s earlier work includes Conversations with Bina48 (2014–), an ongoing conversation with the Bina48 robot, who was designed as a Black woman, and Not the Only One (2019), an AI chatbot trained on oral histories of her...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 2022
... technology into two types: the queer, transformative, and erotic technologies; and the technologies of surveillance, violence, and control. Bee describes Heaven as a “lesbian yaoi” and as “a giant robot anime if all the mecha pilots were girls and all the gay subtext was actually just happening instead...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... moments” of a given type of criminalized arrangement (4). The application programming interface of Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci robot “contains the data residue of multiple past humans and machine movements” (59). Whether deployed by police departments to preemptively criminalize, by medics to optimize...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Alison . 2006 . Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine . London : Routledge . Amir Eyal , and Doyle Patrick . 2002 . “ Adventure Games: A Challenge for Cognitive Robotics .” In Proceedings of the International Cognitive Robotics Workshop , 148 – 55 . Menlo Park, CA...
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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as it oversees. Egan projects this history into the future when one of the “Samburu warriors” will have a grandson, Joe, who “will go to college at Columbia and study engineering, becoming an expert in visual robotic technology that detects the slightest hint of irregular movement (the legacy of a childhood...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 571–596.
Published: 01 September 2011
... trope in early cinema—from
Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920) and Fritz Lang’s
Metropolis (1927) to Victor Halperin’s White Zombie (1931) and Charlie
Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936)—the figure of the automaton, manne-
quin, or robot, and its attendant dilemma, became central...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 307–327.
Published: 01 June 2021
... hold of being, her self-representation nonetheless rejects a traditional mode of humanism. By presenting the aesthetic other, she upends traditional configurations of race as ontology. Instead, her activism is animated by her attention to robots and androids, the man-made even as non- or posthuman...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-3 . 2020 . “ A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human? ” Guardian , September 9. Hao Karen . 2020 . “ A College Kid’s Fake, AI-Generated Blog Fooled Tens of Thousands. This Is How He Made It .” MIT Technology Review , August 14 . https...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2023
... at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who documented the physiological response of humans’ affinity for social robots the more lifelike they appear—up to a point, after which affinity turns to repulsion. Since then, work has been extended and explored by social psychologists and neuroscientists and often...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
Published: 01 September 2018
... (especially given his scanty description). The cover artist would then be picking up on extant valences linking this proto-robot with race. A further iteration, written by Luis Philip Senarens under the house pseudonym “Noname” and titled Frank Reade, Jr., and His New Steam Man; or, The Young Inventor’s...
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