R. U. R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
Book • 2024
R. U. R.
and the Vision of Artificial Life is an edited volume that explores the historical, literary, and scientific contexts of Karel Čapek's seminal play R.U.
R.
The collection brings together scholarship that examines the play's origins, its cultural impact, and how it shaped ideas about synthetic life and automation.
Contributors analyze the play's themes, staging, and philosophical questions about labor, personhood, and technological progress.
The book situates R.U. R.
within broader intellectual currents of the early 20th century, including industrialization and wartime mechanization.
Edited by Jitka Cejkova and published by MIT Press, it serves as a key resource for scholars of literature, history of technology, and robotics.
and the Vision of Artificial Life is an edited volume that explores the historical, literary, and scientific contexts of Karel Čapek's seminal play R.U.
R.
The collection brings together scholarship that examines the play's origins, its cultural impact, and how it shaped ideas about synthetic life and automation.
Contributors analyze the play's themes, staging, and philosophical questions about labor, personhood, and technological progress.
The book situates R.U. R.
within broader intellectual currents of the early 20th century, including industrialization and wartime mechanization.
Edited by Jitka Cejkova and published by MIT Press, it serves as a key resource for scholars of literature, history of technology, and robotics.
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