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R.U.R.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. written by Karel Čapek and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” The play is set in the island headquarters of the R.U.R. corporation. The corporation has been manufacturing artificial beings which resemble humans, but who are tireless workers. They can be mass-produced in large numbers and are being adopted as workers in many countries. In the first scene of the play, they are visited by a young woman, Helena Glory, who aspires to relieve the lot of the robots, who she sees as oppressed. However, in what must be the fastest seduction scene in all drama, she is wooed and agrees to marry Harry Domin, the factory manager, who she has just met. She still however aspires to improve the life of robots and find a way to give them souls. Ultimately, however, this admirable desire leads to disaster for humankind. The play was translated into English, and slightly abridged, by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. This version quickly became popular with both British and American audiences and was well received by critics.

R.U.R

Author : Karel ?apek
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R written by Karel ?apek and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.U.R., which stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called roboti or robots, from synthetic organic matter. Unlike the present conception of robots, they are living flesh and blood creatures rather than machinery, and are closer to the modern idea of clones. They seem happy to work for humans at first, but a robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Čapek and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1923 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

R.U.R.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. written by Karel Čapek and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-09-24T17:59:22Z with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” The play is set in the island headquarters of the R.U.R. corporation. The corporation has been manufacturing artificial beings which resemble humans, but who are tireless workers. They can be mass-produced in large numbers and are being adopted as workers in many countries. In the first scene of the play, they are visited by a young woman, Helena Glory, who aspires to relieve the lot of the robots, who she sees as oppressed. However, in what must be the fastest seduction scene in all drama, she is wooed and agrees to marry Harry Domin, the factory manager, who she has just met. She still however aspires to improve the life of robots and find a way to give them souls. Ultimately, however, this admirable desire leads to disaster for humankind. The play was translated into English, and slightly abridged, by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. This version quickly became popular with both British and American audiences and was well received by critics. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141182087
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Capek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262371898
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life written by Karel Capek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R.—which famously coined the term “robot”—and a collection of essays reflecting on the play’s legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics. Karel Čapek's “R.U.R.” and the Vision of Artificial Life offers a new, highly faithful translation by Štěpán Šimek of Czech novelist, playwright, and critic Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots, as well as twenty essays from contemporary writers on the 1920 play. R.U.R. is perhaps best known for first coining the term “robot” (in Czech, robota means serfdom or arduous drudgery). The twenty essays in this new English edition, beautifully edited by Jitka Čejková, are selected from Robot 100, an edited collection in Czech with perspectives from 100 contemporary voices that was published in 2020 to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the play. Čapek’s robots were autonomous beings, but biological, not mechanical, made of chemically synthesized soft matter resembling living tissue, like the synthetic humans in Blade Runner, Westworld, or Ex Machina. The contributors to the collection—scientists and other scholars—explore the legacy of the play and its connections to the current state of research in artificial life, or ALife. Throughout the book, it is impossible to ignore Čapek’s prescience, as his century-old science fiction play raises contemporary questions with respect to robotics, synthetic biology, technology, artificial life, and artificial intelligence, anticipating many of the formidable challenges we face today. Contributors Jitka Čejková, Miguel Aguilera, Iñigo R. Arandia, Josh Bongard, Julyan Cartwright, Seth Bullock, Dominique Chen, Gusz Eiben, Tom Froese, Carlos Gershenson, Inman Harvey, Jana Horáková, Takashi Ikegami, Sina Khajehabdollahi, George Musser, Geoff Nitschke, Julie Nováková, Antoine Pasquali, Hemma Philamore, Lana Sinapayen, Hiroki Sayama, Nathaniel Virgo, Olaf Witkowski

A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R."

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410356124
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R." written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R.," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Toward the Radical Center

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774075
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Radical Center written by Karel Čapek and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.

The Robotic Imaginary

Author : Jennifer Rhee
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145295741X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Robotic Imaginary written by Jennifer Rhee and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor The word robot—introduced in Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R.—derives from rabota, the Czech word for servitude or forced labor. A century later, the play’s dystopian themes of dehumanization and exploited labor are being played out in factories, workplaces, and battlefields. In The Robotic Imaginary, Jennifer Rhee traces the provocative and productive connections of contemporary robots in technology, film, art, and literature. Centered around the twinned processes of anthropomorphization and dehumanization, she analyzes the coevolution of cultural and technological robots and artificial intelligence, arguing that it is through the conceptualization of the human and, more important, the dehumanized that these multiple spheres affect and transform each other. Drawing on the writings of Alan Turing, Sara Ahmed, and Arlie Russell Hochschild; such films and novels as Her and The Stepford Wives; technologies like Kismet (the pioneering “emotional robot”); and contemporary drone art, this book explores anthropomorphic paradigms in robot design and imagery in ways that often challenge the very grounds on which those paradigms operate in robotics labs and industry. From disembodied, conversational AI and its entanglement with care labor; embodied mobile robots as they intersect with domestic labor; emotional robots impacting affective labor; and armed military drones and artistic responses to drone warfare, The Robotic Imaginary ultimately reveals how the human is made knowable through the design of and discourse on humanoid robots that are, paradoxically, dehumanized.

Capek Four Plays

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408148560
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Capek Four Plays written by Karel Capek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea Çapek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect Play is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case is a fantasy about human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan; The White Plague is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity.

Karel Čapek

Author : Ivan Klíma
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774532
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Karel Čapek written by Ivan Klíma and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And although originally written in Czech, the book was commissioned by Catbird Press and was therefore written with foreign readers in mind; in other words, no prior knowledge of Capek's writings or his milieu is required."--BOOK JACKET.

Catalogue

Author : University of Puerto Rico (1903-1966)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by University of Puerto Rico (1903-1966) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Food and Agricultural Policy in Russia

Author : Csaba Csáki
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821351772
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Food and Agricultural Policy in Russia written by Csaba Csáki and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agricultural sector in Russia has considerable untapped productive potential. Given this potential, agriculture could provide a solid foundation for growth and poverty alleviation, particularly in rural areas of Russia. The objectives of this book are to facilitate debate of issues key to agricultural policy, to contribute to a greater understanding of the Russian agricultural sector outside of Russia, and to identify a framework for further collaboration between the Russian government and the World Bank in the rural sector.

Poems

Author : Grant McGee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Grant McGee and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlas of Novel Tectonics

Author : Jesse Reiser
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985541
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Novel Tectonics written by Jesse Reiser and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural design as a series of problem situations, and each chapter is an argument devoted to a specific condition or case. Influenced by a wide range of fields and phenomenaBrillat-Savarin's classic The Physiology of Taste is one of their primary modelsthe authors provide a cross-section of thinking and inspiration. The result is both an elucidation of the concepts that guide Reiser+Umemoto through their own design process and a series of meditations on topics that have formed their own sense as architects. Atlas of Novel Tectonics offers an entirely fresh perspective on subjects that are generally taken for granted, and does so with a welcome punch and energy.

Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

Author : K. Reilly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230347541
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History written by K. Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.

Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events

Author : Isabelle La Jeunesse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119383544
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events written by Isabelle La Jeunesse and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an understanding of the relationship between social-ecological systems and multilevel governance so that readers can properly deal with hydrometeorological extreme events and hazards Based on field investigations from EU research projects, this book is the first to devote itself to scientific and policy-related knowledge concerning climate change-induced extreme events. It depicts national and international strategies, as well as tools used to improve multilevel governance for the management of hydrometeorological risks. It also demonstrates how these strategies play out over different scales of the decision-making processes. Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events: A Governance Issue offers comprehensive coverage of such events as floods, droughts, coastal storms, and wind storms. It showcases real-life success stories of multilevel governance and highlights the individuals involved and the resources mobilized in the decision-making processes. The book starts by presenting a synthesis of hydrometeorological extreme events and their impacts on society. It then demonstrates how societies are organizing themselves to face these extreme events, focusing on the strategies of integration of risk management in governance and public policy. In addition, it includes the results of several EU-funded projects such as CLIMB, STARFLOOD, and INTERREG IVB project DROP. The first book dedicated to hydrometeorological extreme events governance based on field investigations from EU research projects Offers a “multi-hazards” approach—mixing policy, governance, and field investigations’ main outputs Features the results of EU-funded projects addressing hydrometeorological extreme events Part of the Hydrometeorological Extreme Events series Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events is an ideal book for upper-graduate students, postgraduates, researchers, scientists, and policy-makers working in the field.