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Human Cyborgs and Robots: syllabus

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Victor Gomez Pin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

- An Archaic Phantasm: technical androids in the Iliad
- The creature Pandora
- The extension of the myth in XIXth and XXth Literature
- Pandora versus Frankenstein
- From Karel Capek to Philip K. Dick
- Turing's Test as Literary Construction
- From Literature to Movies
- The contemporary Myth of the Cyborg
- “Become one with his computer”: The case of Steve Mann
- “I was born Human”: the case of Kevin Warwick

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