This reading of the robot as a cultural and technical object is based on Heidegger’s and Stiegler’s revision of the Aristotelian division between natural and technical beings.
In a reading of Carlos Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (1983), Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot (1950), Riddly Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), Chris Cunningham’s All is Full of Love (1999), and Alex Proyas’ film I, Robot (2004), I will frame the robot as an intermedial key figure that signifies the “divorce” of technics and culture as theorized in the works of Bernard Stiegler, most notably Technics and Time: the Fault of Epimetheus (1994). This anticipatory analysis of the robot in contemporary culture poses the question concerning technology as a primarily cultural and ethical question. Finally, it will view the film I, Robot as an adaptation of the book from the perspective of posthumanism, which reflects the innovative aspect of this study in the fashion of the simultaneous analysis of the technophobia and robot agency issues. Hence, this study aims to analyse technophobia and the matter of embodying agency by robots in especially six stories in Asimov’s book with reference to the posthuman theory and the biography of the author. Most of the robots in the stories acquire autonomy, consciousness and agency interfering with the well-set system of robotics which is designed to protect human beings in the first place. Depicting the inner system of the company, Dr Susan Calvin provides information about the nature and the laws of the robotics, and how the laws have been violated or reversed at times and how the robots are discriminated by humans because of technophobia. Robots and Mechanical Men, since the beginning of the new technology age. The narrator of the book, a journalist, recounts the stories while a robopsychologist, Dr Susan Calvin, passes him the “robotic” incidents that she has encountered in the company, U.S. Written by the Russian author and scientist Isaac Asimov in 1950, I, Robot is a collection of nine stories interwoven together through the relationships between humans and machines in the future, around the 2040s.
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