Open Access‘Nothing dirty about turning on a machine’: Loving your Mechanoid in Contemporary Manga
Author(s) -
John Stephens,
Mio Bryce
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2004vol14no2art1267
Subject(s) - nothing , mediation , robot , computer science , humanoid robot , human–computer interaction , sociology , artificial intelligence , cognitive science , psychology , aesthetics , art , epistemology , philosophy , social science
Relationships between humans and humanoid machines, like robots, androids and physical embodiments of computer programs, render permeable the boundary between human and machine, nature and culture, born and made. Artificial intelligence entities are shown with a capacity for emotional development and on the other hand people become cyborged under social and familial pressures to perform the roles expected of them and basic communication is through the mediation of technology.