Artistic articulation of the problem of posthumanity in the play by Karel Čapek “R.U.R. Rossum’s universal robots”
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Keywords

impact factor
homunculus
robot
car riot
cyborg
iron warrior
Nazism
artistic prognosis
posthumanity

How to Cite

Bondareva, O., & Bracki , A. (2021). Artistic articulation of the problem of posthumanity in the play by Karel Čapek “R.U.R. Rossum’s universal robots”. Bibliotekarz Podlaski, 52(3), 89–105. https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.624

Abstract

In the article Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R. Rossum’s universal robots” is read not only as an anti-utopia devoted to the confrontation between humans and robots, but also as a work of art that defines a number of humanitarian discourses of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The play correlates with modern humanitarian studies of posthumanity, posthumanism and transhumanism, examines various projects of posthumanistic reduplication of man – the archetype of the homunculus, types of humanized robots, cyborgs, iron warriors, predicts the decline of masculine discourse and the origins of feminism. The impact factor of this dramatic text goes beyond fiction and theatre and extends to the whole culture, because the concept of “robot” introduced by Karel Čapek is a stable concept of culture, transformation and technology. At the conceptual level, the article deals with the ability of artistic thinking to forecast, identify promising general scientific issues and structure future humanitarian discourses. 

https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.624
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