THE ROBOT
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14136.003.0014" target="_blank" >10.7551/mitpress/14136.003.0014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
THE ROBOT
Original language description
The chapter focuses on a robot with a capital R, the Robot (a dramatic character who first appeared in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., Rossum's Universal Robots published in 1920 and first performed on a theatre stage in 1921. The Robot was introduced not as an update of ancient and old myths, legends, and stories about the artificial man, but to point out that Karel Čapek in his play about Robots invented not only the Robot character but a new myth of an industrial age, also called the machine age. I argue that Čapek understood the dramatic conflict between robot and human not as a clash of two irreconcilable opposites, or as a problematic relationship of an original and its model, but rather as an internal conflict of a modern individual, a member of industrial society, trying to adapt and to fit to the new working conditions and a new lifestyle of modern society. The two opposites, Robot vs Human, are actually two modalities of humanity that individuals fulfill performatively, within processes of ´becoming a man´ or ´becoming a robot´ through their actions and gestures. After a brief discussion of the Robot etymology, the semiotic analysis of the robot as a theatrical sign was performed. Doing so, the representation of ´roboticity´ across all the characters of the drama were shown. For this, the actantial model of Algirdas Julien Greimas was used, which makes it possible to reveal the dramatic space of the play, that reminds of chess. The game of Humans vs Robots can end up saving or destroying humanity, depending on the players' game strategies and moves.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life / Karel Čapek
ISBN
9780262544504
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
177-192
Number of pages of the book
292
Publisher name
MIT Press
Place of publication
Cambridge, London
UT code for WoS chapter
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