Kathleen Richardson: 4 books
An Anthropology of Robots and AI
Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological...
Cashing Out of Your Business
Your Last Great Deal
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
If you are a business owner, you have spent countless hours growing your business and probably only dreamed of how you are going to cash out one day, but how? Did you know that on average only 1 in 5 businesses placed on the market for sale, actually sell? This statistic only stands to...
Challenging Sociality
An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a “special” affinity between them and mechanical...
Cities Called Athens
Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume...