ABSTRACT
The robot character is human-nonhuman, occupying tense spaces in conceptual imaginings. It is by locating the robot in this period, when vibrant debates dominated public discourse on the nature of the political organization of society, that robots as revolutionaries become all too apparent. The substitution of humans by robots led, KarelCapek imagined, to a loss of human purpose. The themes of dehumanization and the impact of the machine had a significant impact on the art of the period. The machine also became a vehicle into a different kind of world. Capitalist social relations, where humans were exploited, which created the conditions that alienated humans from social life with others and created mystified human social relations. The robot is a symbolic figure that captures paradoxical feelings on the nature of the human and machine and the interrelations between them.
