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The origin of the term robot is the Czech word ‘robota,’ which can be translated as ‘compulsory labor.’ A hundred years ago, people imagined that this work was “dull, dangerous, dirty” – essentially, work that could not be performed by humans and had to be delegated to machines. In her “Silent Works” video talk Masha Burina asks: where do the boundaries between (invisibilized) ‘compulsory labor’ and freely chosen work lie today?
