Fakes, Forgeries, and Robots: From the comedy of substitution to the theatre of affect
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
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| Description | I would like to deal with the blind spot in the spectrum of ROBOTS' interpretations. So far, Robots have been taken as a natural part of our culture. We can meet with them on movie screens, on pages of sci-fi magazines and books, in toyshops and household appliances shops, or in factories, we can see them in rescue operations and space expeditions on TV, etc. However, the original Robots, the drama characters, which were for the first time introduced to the world in the play R. U. R., Rossum's Universal Robots (1920/21) by Karel Capek, has been escaping serious analyses from the aesthetics point of view. Therefore, I would like to go back to the roots of the Robot's meaning, to introduce the Robot as a special kind of artistic medium. The Robot will be analysed within the perspective of semiology of theatre, and semiology of fakes and forgeries. The argument leads towards assertion that the Robot, as a sign within theatre sign system, establishes a new category in the taxonomy of artificial man and serves as a means of questioning of the borderline between notion of human and machine. |
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