DeFalco, AI orcid.org/0000-0003-2021-5714 (2016) Beyond Prosthetic Memory: Posthumanism, Embodiment, and Caregiving Robots. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016 (3). ISSN 2375-8856
Abstract
Literary and cinematic speculations about the future of care, read in tandem with the rising prominence of actual robotic caregivers, foretell a future in which human interaction is no longer an inevitable feature of care relations. This essay considers the social, cultural and ethical implications of robotic care alongside a particular speculative representation of posthuman care, the 2012 film Robot and Frank. The film demonstrates how the intimacy of human/machine care relationships can supply posthumanist insights into the illusion of human invulnerability and exceptionalism that obscure the heterogeneity of embedded and embodied subjects. Not only does the film dramatize the fundamental anxieties caregiving robots incite, it also offers provocative posthumanist critiques of human exceptionalism, conjuring haptic affects that trespass the boundaries between humans and machines.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Authors/Creators: |
|
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal. |
Dates: |
|
Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2016 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2022 10:25 |
Published Version: | https://ageculturehumanities.org/WP/beyond-prosthe... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Athenaeum Press of Coastal Carolina University |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105361 |