2022/11
Industrialized Sisyphus
[. . .Endless Pick and Place of mechanical sisyphus. . .] “ * * * Punished for cheating death twice Forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity. . . Albert Camus_ “an absurd hero” Richard Taylor_ “Representation of a life made meaningless, consists of bare repetition” * * * The robot are servo motor creatures cheating death, yet contrary to Sisyphus they have been created by humans to do repetitive tasks. . . Borrowed from French servo-moteur: Latin servus "slave" + French motor J. Farcot introduced such a mechanism in the 1860's in the publication Le servo-moteur ou moteur asservi (Paris, 1873) ” |
ETH Zurich
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