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Japanese Robot Culture

Performance, Imagination, and Modernity

Yuji Sone (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

265 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-53216-9 (ISBN)

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Japanese Robot Culture examines social robots in Japan, those in public, domestic, and artistic contexts. Unlike other studies, this book sees the robot in relation to Japanese popular culture, and argues that the Japanese ‘affinity’ for robots is the outcome of a complex loop of representation and social expectation in the context of Japan’s continuing struggle with modernity. Considering Japanese robot culture from the critical perspectives afforded by theatre and performance studies, this book is concerned with representations of robots and their inclusion in social and cultural contexts, which science and engineering studies do not address. The robot as a performing object generates meaning in staged events and situations that make sense for its Japanese observers and participants. This book examines how specific modes of encounter with robots in carefully constructed mises en scène can trigger reflexive, culturally specific, and often ideologically-inflected responses.

Dr Yuji Sone is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Music, Communication, and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Australia. He teaches theatre and performance studies courses with an emphasis on praxis in relation to cultural studies and media studies; he is also a performer and dramaturge.

Introduction: The Japanese Robot and Performance.- Robotics and Representation.- Futuristic Spectacle: Robot Performances at Expos.- The Anthropomorphic Robot and Artistic Expression.- Robots, Space, and Place.- Hatsune Miku, Virtual Machine-woman.- Competition Robots: Empathy and Identification.- Robots that ‘Care’.- Epilogue: Staging a Robot Nation.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 265 p. 4 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Hiroshi Ishiguro • Japanese Robotics and Popular Culture • Nationalism and robotics in Japan • Robot culture in Japanese studies • Robotics, Performance and Competitions • Robot restaurants • Social robotics in Japan
ISBN-10	1-137-53216-5 / 1137532165
ISBN-13	978-1-137-53216-9 / 9781137532169
Zustand	Neuware