If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed? Humanoid Robots and Cyborgs As Consuming Subjects and Consumed Objects
Both humanoid robots for the home and cyborg humans enhanced by prostheses, drugs, and transplantation are a growing reality and will expand considerably in coming decades. They precipitate a number of consumer behavior questions including what it means to be human, can we marry robots, and should robots have rights.
Citation:
Russell Belk (2014) ,"If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed? Humanoid Robots and Cyborgs As Consuming Subjects and Consumed Objects", in LA - Latin American Advances in Consumer Research Volume 3, eds. Eva M. González, Tina M. Lowrey, and , Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 3-6.
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Russell Belk, York University, Canada
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LA - Latin American Advances in Consumer Research Volume 3 | 2014
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