I, Misfit: Empty Fortresses, Social Robots, and Peculiar Relations in Autism Research.
I draw upon Critical Disability Studies and Race Critical Code Studies to apply an oppositional reading of applied robotics in autism intervention. Roboticists identify care work as a prime legitimizing application for their creations. Popular imagination of robotics in therapeutic or rehabilitative...
| Publicado en: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 451 - 479 |
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2021
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