Thinking with Robots

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Book Review| March 17 2023 Thinking with Robots Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People. By Despina Kakoudaki. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2014. 272 pp. Paper, $35.95; epub or pdf, $31.95.The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. By Louis Chude-Sokei. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2015. 280 pp. Paper, $27.95; e-book, $21.99.The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor. By Jennifer Rhee. Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2018. 240 pp. Cloth, $108.00; paper, $27.00; e-book, $25.65.Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures. By Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2019. 256 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $25.95; e-book, $15.31. Lindsay Thomas Lindsay Thomas Lindsay Thomas is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Miami, specializing in contemporary literary and cultural studies and the digital humanities. She is the author of Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 (2021), published by the University of Minnesota Press. From 2017-21, she co-directed the digital humanities project “WhatEvery1Says: The Humanities in Public Discourse.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature 10575162. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575162 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lindsay Thomas; Thinking with Robots. American Literature 2023; 10575162. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575162 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press2023 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews and Review Essays You do not currently have access to this content.