ENGL 201 Lecture 9: Class Feb 7 Rossum's Universal Robots
8 Feb 2019
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Class feb 7 rossum"s universal robots by karel capek. In science fiction, anxieties of the real world are alluded through metaphors. White saviour narrative: people need someone to come in and save them. Europeans get agency, the rest of the people are ignored: act 2 page 3, europeans love war and always have, robots are being used much like human soldiers were in wwi, europeans = people racism. Scientists did not think through the results of their actions: act 2 page 9, busman criticizes the idea of banding together behind one big cause. Can there ever be on big socialist revolution: robots will have the same problems as humans. They will eventually resort to identify racism, divisions, problems: act 2 page 12: Labour is seen as humiliating, a waste of time. Fabry says a return to simpler times would be a better choice: domin says if humans had more time they"d improve, escape from chaos through a god-caused disaster.
