What is it about robots that gives them such a hold on our resource and such a perennially outstanding space in pop culture ? Despina Kakoudaki is here to serve our questions about automaton in fable and why we ca n’t seem to get enough of those stories .
Kakoudaki is the source of the young bookAnatomy of a Robot : Literature , Cinema , and the Cultural Work of Artificial People , which seem at both the how and the why of golem salient place in fiction — stretching from ancient verse all the way to modern science fabrication movies . She is also a professor of literature at American University , where her inquiry focuses on the interchange roles of robots in fiction , apocalyptic tale , and the role of tech in former pic , among other things .
She will be joining us from 11:00 a.m. – noon ( peaceable meter ) , so start asking her all your interrogation about how we cerebrate about golem , both now and in the past times !
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