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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Wiley, 2020.
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This symposium aims to broaden the way scholars theorise and empirically treatthe increasingly complex relationships between robots and social life, especially in the contextof our historically anthropocentric human geographies. The authors of this symposiumengage a range of diverse epistemological, ontological, and methodological commitments,but all in some way address the power dynamics and shifting political economies involved inhuman–robotic interactions as well as possibilities for resisting and overcoming particularforms of domination and oppression. At the same time, the papers present new avenues forconceptualising the rise of robots and robotics and the everyday socio-spatial relations ofcontemporary algorithmic life. In a rapidly evolving present and future, where life is increasinglymanaged in relation to algorithmic imaginaries and automated fantasies, these papersdemonstrate the potential for geographers to make significant interventions and contributionsto investigate the limits, contradictions, and messy contingencies of socio-technicalassemblages, to trace the shifting spatialities and temporalities of the geographies of algorithmicgovernance, and to envision radical democratic, post-capitalist, emancipatory alternatives.These futures are unlikely to be “robot free”, so the question remains how will webuild a future set of geographies that acknowledges this reality while also claiming space forthe diverse and rich expansion of all forms of life, both human and non-human?
Author(s): Del Casino VJ, House-Peters L, Crampton JW, Gerhardt H
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Antipode
Year: 2020
Volume: 52
Issue: 3
Pages: 605-618
Print publication date: 01/05/2020
Online publication date: 24/02/2020
Acceptance date: 31/01/2020
Date deposited: 27/02/2020
ISSN (print): 0066-4812
ISSN (electronic): 1467-8330
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12616
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12616
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