Robot and Kitsch: From the myth of technological progress towards the medium of subversive strategies of posthumanism

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Robot and Kitsch: From the myth of technological progress towards the medium of subversive strategies of posthumanism
Original language description
The chapter traces evolution of the Robot, motif/drama character coined by Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (1920/21), from the central figure of the technological progress myth towards it?s transformation into powerful means of subversive strategies within discourse of post-humanism and information society. The argument starts with explanation of the R.U.R. reception by Czech theatre critiques (Robot as a kitsch), and continues by tracing the way Robot had become part of the myth of the ?machine age? andsubsequently their reputation as sci-fi genre cliché establishment. Finally, the Robotic art importance as a platform of subversive strategies within new media art practices and information society ideologies is stressed.
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Czech description
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Evolution Haute Couture: Art and science in the post-biological age Part 2: Theory
ISBN
9785946200738
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
172-187
Number of pages of the book
560
Publisher name
National Centre of Contemporary Arts (NCCA) Baltic Branch, Russia
Place of publication
Kaliningrad
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