Дойде човекът, който не е човек: философия на антропологическата митница
Here Comes the Human Who Is Not a Human: Philosophy of the Anthropological Customs Clearance
Author(s): Miglena NikolchinaSubject(s): Philosophy, Aesthetics, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: human; robot; anthropological machine; avant-garde; RUR;
Summary/Abstract: The anthropological machine Giorgio Agamben discusses in The Open is not exactly inoperative: rather, it has switched gears from the metaphysical differentiation of man from animal to the uncanny reduplication of human and robot. Addressing this profound change, the present essay analyzes Svetoslav Minkov’s short story “The Man Who Came from America” (1933) in the context of the romantic legacy, the avant-garde aesthetics of cubo-futurism and the interwar reverberations of Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. The American robot who arrives in a box “as machines do” will cross the border transformed into a rival and master of his owner. The essay focuses on the hilarious episode with the clearance of the robot as epitomizing the “customs clearance philosophy” which ushers in the comic and horrifying Doppelganger effects of present-day anthropogenesis.
Journal: Философски алтернативи
- Issue Year: XXX/2021
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 17-32
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Bulgarian
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