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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 234–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Brian Sudlow José Padilha’s new RoboCop (2014) film can be read in the light of Paul Virilio’s theoretical work, notably Desert Screen . RoboCop serves as the city’s warrior but also as a munition in the hands of global media forces. Still, even if the film presents the fallibility of robotic...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Concerning the use of caring robots, Turkle does not address the way attitudes to immigration and subsequent policies in the United States contribute to the lack of skilled labor for the care of children and vulnerable people and render the use of robots necessary. Even though Turkle acknowledges...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and plants as colonial subjects. In 2019, at the José de Guimarães International Arts Centre in Guimarães, Marques's video work opened the exhibition Plant Revolution! Featuring the plant Mimosa pudica , the video shows a looped interaction between a robotic hand and a mimosa plant. Recalling that Mimosa...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and excreting mechanical duck gather to themselves something of the technical magic of the android, but to the manifestation of corporeal rather than cognitive life, driven by simulated instinct rather than consciousness or reason. Today, animal-inspired robots and software systems model instinctive, social...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Figure 1 Robotic POV ...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 201–209.
Published: 01 July 2015
... ground troops—at least not yet. 2 Whether this will remain the case over the coming months is open to conjecture, but the strategic military option to engage an enemy with airpower alone (including the new art of drone warfare and notwithstanding future predictions of “killer robots”) 3 fulfills...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... bureaucracies. Boston was locked down as militarized police squads and armored cars searched for one wounded nineteen-year-old. Once found, he was observed by infrared from a helicopter and then a remote-controlled “robot” pulled back the tarp covering him. This effective hybrid mobilization of hierarchical...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 509–511.
Published: 01 November 2024
... set of empirical phenomena that fundamentally trouble the idea of stable borders between self and other, when scrutinized from queer somatechnical perspectives. In focus are here dementia (seen through the lens of robotics used for communication, memory enhancement, and greater physical and mental...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 344–353.
Published: 01 November 2018
... systems that now dominate our lives operated originally as brick-and-mortar entertainment zones with their attendant pickpockets, crackpots, and humbug salesmen. These now infest the digital labyrinth 24/7 with endless detours, robotic spam pop-ups, and unhinged tweet storms. We all get tangled up...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2015
...–71 marked the crossing of the break-even point: ever since then, railways have been shipping more gunpowder than food to the front. Which leaves the question of how war could also economize on soldiers. The well-known possible answers range from rockets and drones to combat robots, which gives...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
... from philosophical reflections on failed absolutes: they deal with robotic sex aids, a sex club where orgies are supervised, and a photographic collection of one hundred vaginas. The theme of his comments concerns the way a kind of superego change is occurring—how indeed could a consent guardian...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2016
... . Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech . New York : PublicAffairs . Branwyn Gareth . 2013 . “ Join the Robot Uprising! ” Make , April , 8 . Breazeale Kenon . 1994 . “ In Spite of Women: Esquire Magazine and the Construction of the Male...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... gold-plated elevator (Littler, this issue); a Russian oligarch’s £360 million super yacht ( Burford 2017) ; a Chinese tycoon shopping with an entourage of robot handmaidens ( Mullin 2016) . Such examples sit within a rich vein of popular accounts of the wealthy and their misbehaviors, from F. Scott...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., then Hitler’s robot-bombs would have taken their place . . . among the empirically selected facts in which the symbolic state of the world-spirit is immediately expressed. Like Fascism itself, the robots are self-steering and yet utterly subjectless. Just like the former, they combine the utmost technical...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and gratitude. This affection even earned them a playful comparison to Baymax, the nurturing robot from the animation film Big Hero 6 . Their appearance, clad head to toe in protective gowns and masks with only their eyes visible through clear goggles, resonated with the selfless medical robot portrayed...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
... as “ant tanks.” As the war rages overhead, the subterranean masses are put to work manufacturing the robots that have replaced human combatants in the toxic conflict. Years pass, and the bunkered survivors watch on television as cities are incinerated and the president delivers morale-boosting messages...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 124–134.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the human that is simultaneously more and less than a neoliberal robot for producing economic value. Against critics who suggest that his utopianism is entirely unrealistic, Žižek ( 2020 ) points out that it is already possible to see the outline of the kind of communism he imagines in, for example...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the warlord from Corsica, they came equipped with a mixture of revolutionary and patriotic fervor that may have characterized the American insurgency thirty years earlier on the other side of the Atlantic but was new to Europe. It did not exist in the old conscript or mercenary armies, in which robot soldiers...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 111–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... 2014 . “ Indie 100 2014 ,” implabs.net/indie1002014/ . Accessed August 11 . Innis Harold . 1951 . The Bias of Communication . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Levy Frank Murnane Richard J. . 2013 . Dancing with Robots: Human Skills for Computerized Work . London...
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