Love and hope: affective labor and posthuman relations in Klara and The Sun.

If super AI becomes possible, what could be the relationship between humans and non-humans? Does love play an important role in it? What is the meaning of true love? Noted for writing "novels of great emotional force", Kazuo Ishiguro in his most recent speculative fiction Klara and the Sun imagines...

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Publicado en:Neohelicon Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 551 - 563
Autor principal: Du, Lanlan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2022
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