Japanese Robot Culture - Performance, Imagination, and Modernity

von: Yuji Sone

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

ISBN: 9781137525277 , 273 Seiten

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Japanese Robot Culture - Performance, Imagination, and Modernity


 

Acknowledgements

6

Contents

9

List of Figures

11

1: Introduction: The Japanese Robot and Performance

12

Japanese Culture and the Robot

16

Defining the Robot

16

The History of the Japanese Performing Robot

18

Japanese Modernity and Technology

22

Theatre and Performance Concepts Through Japanese Culture

25

Performativity and Geinoh

25

The Performing Object and Staging

27

Double Vision

29

Participatory Spectatorship

29

In This Book

32

Notes

35

References

39

2: Robotics and Representation

48

Japanese Humanoid Research

53

Japanese Robotics and Manga/Anime Culture

56

Astro Boy Syndrome

60

The Presence of the Japanese Humanoid

62

Notes

65

References

67

3: Futuristic Spectacle: Robot Performances at Expos

72

Robot Spectacle at the Japan World Expo, 1970

76

Celebrating Japan´s Robots: The Tsukuba Exposition, 1985

80

Nature and Technology: Garden and Greenery Exposition, Osaka, 1990

82

Integration and Fantasy: Expo 2005 in Aichi

84

Cultural Essentialism and Dramaturgy: In Tokyo and on the Australian Tour, 2007

86

Notes

94

References

96

4: The Anthropomorphic Robot and Artistic Expression

100

Oriza Hirata´s Robot Theatre

102

The Failure of Sayonara

107

Hiroshi Ishiguro´s Android Experiments

109

Cultural Affordance and Preconceived Outcomes

115

Robots and Disillusionment

117

Notes

121

References

123

5: Robots, Space, and Place

127

Giant Robot Statues

128

Dreams of a Giant Robot

133

Robot Restaurant

138

Notes

144

References

144

6: Hatsune Miku, Virtual Machine-Woman

149

The Development of Hatsune Miku

151

Japanese Fanzine Culture and Otaku

154

Lolicon Manga and Otaku Desire

157

Critique of the Otaku Imagination

159

Kawaii and Female Idols

161

Circuits of Signification: Otaku Sexuality

167

Notes

169

References

172

7: Competition Robots: Empathy and Identification

177

Robot Contests

178

Robo-One

179

The Puppet, the Puppeteer, and the Spectator

181

Robots as Mediators

183

Continuum: Organic Beings and Inanimate Objects

185

The Human, the Monkey, the Robot, the Other

186

Bacarobo and Humour

188

Space, Community, and Audience

190

Clowning and Forms of Comedy

192

Satire and Modoki

194

Notes

195

References

198

8: Robots that `Care´

200

The Socially Assistive Robot

201

Aibo´s Design

206

Communication with Paro

210

The Institutionalised Other

213

Fandom: Living with Robots

215

Notes

217

References

220

9: Epilogue: Staging a Robot Nation

226

Notes

232

References

233

References

234

Index

263