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Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a ...
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27 December 2020

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating – a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
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Pages: 166
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Science Studies
Publication Date:
27 December 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837652031
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Pat Treusch (Dr. phil.) works as a feminist science and technology studies scholar at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZIFG) and the Department of General and Historical Educational Sciences at the Technical University Berlin.
Frontmatter i
Contents 1
Introduction: Is the Robotic Future Open (for Knitting)? 7
Chapter 1: The Knitter in the Lab 17
Chapter 2: String Figuring Robotic Knitting 67
Chapter 3: Knitting Together 123
Bibliography 145
List of Figures 153
Acknowledgments 155