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1	Anthropomorphic Attachments in U.S. Literature, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence Rhee, Jennifer January 2010 (has links) <p>"Anthropomorphic Attachments" undertakes an examination of the human as a highly nebulous, fluid, multiple, and often contradictory concept, one that cannot be approached directly or in isolation, but only in its constitutive relationality with the world. Rather than trying to find a way outside of the dualism between human and not-human, I take up the concept of anthropomorphization as a way to hypersaturate the question of the human. Within this hypersaturated field of inquiry, I focus on the specific anthropomorphic relationalities between human and humanoid technology. Focusing primarily on contemporary U.S. technologies and cultural forms, my dissertation looks at artificial intelligence and robotics in conversation with their cultural imaginaries in contemporary literature, science fiction, film, performance art, and video games, and in conversation with contemporary philosophies of the human, the posthuman, and technology. In reading these discourses as shaping, informing, and amplifying each other and the multiple conceptions of the human they articulate, "Anthropomorphic Attachments" attends to these multiple humans and the multiple morphologies by which anthropomorphic relationalities imagine and inscribe both humanoid technologies and the human itself.</p> / Dissertation Literature, American Engineering, Robotics Literature, General anthropomorphization artificial intelligence literature robotics science fiction the human
2	Augusto dos Anjos: um moderno entre os \'ismos\' / Augusto dos Anjos: a modern amog the isms Candeias, Daniel Levy 27 March 2015 (has links) É quase uma unanimidade entre os leitores e a crítica que a obra de Augusto dos Anjos possui características tão próprias que lhe conferem uma posição de isolamento na tradição literária brasileira. A proposta deste trabalho é investigar as particularidades dessa obra, de modo a depreender alguns de seus principais fios condutores e significados. Ao nosso ver, os excêntricos encaminhamentos escolhidos pelo poeta paraibano foram uma resposta ao momento de estagnação pelo qual passava nossa poesia do final do Século XIX ao início do XX. A fim de se dissociar do beletrismo e da diluição do Romantismo que predominavam nessa época, Augusto dos Anjos estabeleceu, em seus poemas, um diálogo extenso e profundo com a literatura romântica e o cientificismo numa conformação negativa, contrapondose aos fundamentos de ambas as fontes de inspiração. As formas de constituição desse processo, que denominamos assimilação negativa, e suas consequências estéticas são nosso foco principal no estudo do livro Eu e da coletânea Outras Poesias. / It is almost unanimous among readers and critics that the work of Augusto dos Anjos has such peculiar characteristics that impart him an isolated position in the Brazilian literary tradition. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the particularities of his work to make it possible to apprehend its main concepts and meanings. In our view, the eccentric ways chosen by the Brazilian poet were an answer to the period of stagnation in which the Brazilian poetry was situated in the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX. To dissociate himself from the love of belleslettres and the dilution of Romanticism that predominated in the scenery of that period Augusto dos Anjos established, in his poems, an intense and profound dialogue with Scientificism and the romantic literature in a negative configuration, opposing himself to the main foundations of both sources of inspiration. The ways this process was constituted, that we denominate negative assimilation, and its esthetical consequences are our main focus in the study of the book entitled Eu and the collected poems Outras Poesias. Anthropomorphization Antropomorfização Augusto dos Anjos Augusto dos Anjos Cientificismo Dehumanization Desumanização Parnasianism Parnasianismo Romanticism Romantismo Scientificism
3	Augusto dos Anjos: um moderno entre os \'ismos\' / Augusto dos Anjos: a modern amog the isms Daniel Levy Candeias 27 March 2015 (has links) É quase uma unanimidade entre os leitores e a crítica que a obra de Augusto dos Anjos possui características tão próprias que lhe conferem uma posição de isolamento na tradição literária brasileira. A proposta deste trabalho é investigar as particularidades dessa obra, de modo a depreender alguns de seus principais fios condutores e significados. Ao nosso ver, os excêntricos encaminhamentos escolhidos pelo poeta paraibano foram uma resposta ao momento de estagnação pelo qual passava nossa poesia do final do Século XIX ao início do XX. A fim de se dissociar do beletrismo e da diluição do Romantismo que predominavam nessa época, Augusto dos Anjos estabeleceu, em seus poemas, um diálogo extenso e profundo com a literatura romântica e o cientificismo numa conformação negativa, contrapondose aos fundamentos de ambas as fontes de inspiração. As formas de constituição desse processo, que denominamos assimilação negativa, e suas consequências estéticas são nosso foco principal no estudo do livro Eu e da coletânea Outras Poesias. / It is almost unanimous among readers and critics that the work of Augusto dos Anjos has such peculiar characteristics that impart him an isolated position in the Brazilian literary tradition. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the particularities of his work to make it possible to apprehend its main concepts and meanings. In our view, the eccentric ways chosen by the Brazilian poet were an answer to the period of stagnation in which the Brazilian poetry was situated in the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX. To dissociate himself from the love of belleslettres and the dilution of Romanticism that predominated in the scenery of that period Augusto dos Anjos established, in his poems, an intense and profound dialogue with Scientificism and the romantic literature in a negative configuration, opposing himself to the main foundations of both sources of inspiration. The ways this process was constituted, that we denominate negative assimilation, and its esthetical consequences are our main focus in the study of the book entitled Eu and the collected poems Outras Poesias. Antropomorfização Augusto dos Anjos Cientificismo Desumanização Parnasianismo Romantismo Anthropomorphization Augusto dos Anjos Dehumanization Parnasianism Romanticism Scientificism
4	"Táhneme káru kapitalismu dál a dál": Etnografie tovární výroby / "We drag the cart of capitalism on and on": Ethnography of factory production Virtová, Tereza January 2014 (has links) This thesis presents the main results of a five-month ethnographic research project in a global factory in the Czech Republic. It is focused on three topics. Due to a number of ethical dilemmas that accompanied the research, the first part examines ethics in anthropology, both the instruments of the institutionalization of professional ethics and "ethics in practice". As a strategy for dealing with ethical dilemmas the thesis aims at a reflexive approach, as proposed by Guillemin and Gillam (2004) not only to ensure rigor in research methodology, but also as a form of "morally adequate research work". The second research focus is the production line. The line makes sense - that is, produces stuff - only when people and machines interconnect. Symmetrical analysis juxtaposes humans and machines and explores the dynamics of agency as it shifts the borders between people and machines and the characteristics that each takes from the other. The last part of the thesis presents the factory as an actor in the labor market. Through the analysis of economic and organizational factors as well as workers" stories and interpretations and regional authorities" accounts, the final part tries to explain the perception of the factory as a stable and relatively solid employer. Keywords: global factory, ethics,...
5	Physiological Reactions To Uncanny Stimuli: Substantiation Of Self-assessment And Individual Perception Ballion, Tatiana 01 January 2012 (has links) There is abundant anecdotal evidence substantiating Mori’s initial observation of the "uncanny valley", a point at which human response to non-human entities drops sharply with respect to comfort (Mori, 1970), and the construct itself has a long-standing history in both Robotics and Psychology. Currently, many fields such as design, training, entertainment, and education make use of heuristic approaches to accommodate the anticipated needs of the user/consumer/audience in certain important aspects. This is due to the lack of empirical substantiation or, in some cases, the impossibility of rigorous quantification; one such area is with respect to the user’s experience of uncanniness, a feeling of "eeriness" or "wrongness" when interacting with artefacts or environments. Uncanniness, however, continues to be defined and measured in a largely subjective way, and often after the fact; an experience or product’s uncanny features are pointed out after the item has been markedly avoided or complained about by the general public. These studies are among the first seeking to determine a constellation of personality traits and physiological responses that incline the user to have a more frequent or profound "uncanny" reaction when presented with stimuli meeting the criteria for a level of "eeriness". In study 1, 395 adults were asked to categorize 200 images as uncanny, neutral, pleasant, or other. In Study 2, physiological and eye-tracking data was collected from twenty two adults as they viewed uncanny, neutral and pleasant images culled from study 1. This research identifies components of the uncanny valley related to subjective assessment, personality factors (using the HEXACO and Anthropomorphic Tendencies Scale), and biophysical measures, and found that traits unique to Emotionality on the HEXACO inventory, compounded with a form of anthropomorphism demonstrates a level of relationship to the subjective experience of uncanny stimuli. There is evidence that HEXACO type and forms of anthropomorphic perception mediates the biophysical iv expression and the subjective perception of the stimuli. In keeping with psychological hypotheses, stimuli to which the participants had greatest response centered on death, the threat of death, or mismatched/absent facial features. Uncanny valley anthropomorphism hexaco emotionality unpleasant reaction uncanny human robot interaction eerie eeriness uncanniness personality traits inventory robot cgi android actroid humanlike cognition perception eye tracking perception of the uncanny user perception individual differences anthropomorphization anthropomorphisation anthropomorphic tendencies fear horror terror unease uneasiness entertainment psychology film environment environments immersion narrative social adjectives user description popular media Psychology

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