HORÁKOVÁ, Jana. Fakes, Forgeries, and Robots. VLAK : Contemporary Poetics & the Arts. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2015, vol. 5, No 1, p. 514-520. ISSN 1804-512X.
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Original name Fakes, Forgeries, and Robots
Authors HORÁKOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition VLAK : Contemporary Poetics & the Arts, Praha, Litteraria Pragensia, 2015, 1804-512X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085710
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English fakes; forgeries; robot
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D., učo 14870. Changed: 30/3/2016 18:34.
Abstract
Karel Čapek's drama character, the artificial worker called Robot from the play R.U.R., Rossum's Universal Robots (1920/21), is a powerful and widespread concept of an embodied artificial intelligence. It can be even said that Čapek articulated a primary goal of artificial intelligence research in his famous play about Robots. However, his concept of Robot shouldn't be reduced to mere technological invention, similar to those known from Jules Verne’s novels. Rather we should ask ourselves why he wanted to invent the neologism (and the drama character) Robot? It is argued that this is because he needed the new word to be able newly articulate the concept of an (artificial) man for the twentieth century. To show the effect of the Čapek’s neologism the Robot character will be introduced from perspective of theatre semiology, and semiology of fakes and forgeries (I. Osolsobě, U. Eco). The argument leads towards claim that Robot, as a sign within theatre sign system, establishes a new category in the taxonomy of artificial man that serves as a means of questioning of dichotomy human vs. machine that is abandon for the concepts of becoming human and becoming machine in R.U.R. plot already.
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MUNI/A/1179/2014, interní kód MUName: Výzkumné sondy k dějinám hudební kultury na Moravě, především v Brně, část II.
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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