"In the Beginning: Dramatic Readings Followed by Discussion of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robets)"
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
22-9-2016 12:30 PM
Description
Ever wonder about the origin of the word “robot”? Join the “Robots R Us” class for dramatic readings from Czech writer Capek’s play R.U.R., which while not the first work to depict artificial humans (consider Metropolis), nor the first to examine how our human creations for better or worse often become all too human themselves (consider Frankenstein), is perhaps the first work to consider in one work the potential negative consequences for humans of too many labor saving devices—as well as the consequences for those devices as they themselves become sentient.
Recommended Citation
Belmont University, ""In the Beginning: Dramatic Readings Followed by Discussion of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robets)"" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 12.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/2016/12
"In the Beginning: Dramatic Readings Followed by Discussion of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robets)"
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Ever wonder about the origin of the word “robot”? Join the “Robots R Us” class for dramatic readings from Czech writer Capek’s play R.U.R., which while not the first work to depict artificial humans (consider Metropolis), nor the first to examine how our human creations for better or worse often become all too human themselves (consider Frankenstein), is perhaps the first work to consider in one work the potential negative consequences for humans of too many labor saving devices—as well as the consequences for those devices as they themselves become sentient.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts and Sciences