Hybrid Societies: Living with Social Robots

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Endorsement
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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction to Social Robotics
	What Is a Social Robot and How It Interacts
	Types of Social Robots
	The Art and Science of Building Social Robots
	A Glimpse Into the History of Social Robots and Use Cases
	Robots in Society: Ethics Issues
	Three Preliminary Considerations
	Objectives of this Work
	Note
	References
2 Beyond Subjects and Objects: Actors in Hybrid Societies
	Steps to Reaching a Hybrid Social
	The Limitations of the Ontological Approach to Object Agency
	ANT: Flattening the Social
	Robot Mediators
	References
3 Beyond Anthropomorphic Interactions
	Dislocating Anthropomorphism
	Who Is Enrolling Whom?
	Networks of Meaning
	Meaning-making Processes, Panoramas, Attachments, and Plug-Ins
	What Do We Need a Theory of Crisis For? Badiou and the Dichotomy Being–Event
	Notes
	References
4 A Systemic Theory of Socio-Symbolic Organisations
	A Systemic Theory – Maturana and Varela
	The Homeostasis of Socio-Symbolic System
	The Crisis of Socio-Symbolic Systems
	On Haraway’s Compostist Theory
	Notes
	References
5 A Machine Politics
	The Field of a War of Inscriptions
	Technologies and Eschatologies
	Sex Robots: the Phantasmatic Support of Masculinism
	Notes
	References
6 The Intersubjective Dimension of Human–robot Interactions
	Rethinking the Deception Objection
	Between Mirrors and Intersubjectivity
	Internal Objects, External Objects
	The Objet Petit A: Excess and Residue
	The Phantasmatic Structure of Experience and Das Ding
	Preliminary Conclusions
	Notes
	References
7 Hybrid Systems: A Research Agenda
	Beyond Social Robots: Synthetic Social Mediators
	Trustworthiness: Property of Systems Or Property of Agents?
	Notes
	References
Index