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- Title
What Do Sex Robots Want? Representation, Materiality, and Queer Use.
- Authors
DeFalco, Amelia
- Abstract
This essay addresses its title question by analyzing sex robots, real and imagined, as both representational objects and vital matter. Though frequently treated as perverse by popular media, actual sex robots are in fact remarkably conventional in their reproduction of a heteronormative sexual aesthetic that disavows the vibrancy of the sexualized object. Sex robot art and fictional narratives (both film and literature), including Jordan Wolfson's installation Female Figure (2014), Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014), and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods (2007), employ and interrogate this kind of mimetic design. In these texts, sex robots assert their vibrancy and agency via what Sarah Ahmed terms "queer use," while at the same time reinscribing the humanist hierarchies that precluded their vitality in the first place.
- Subjects
WINTERSON, Jeanette, 1959-; ROBOTS; NARRATIVE art; STONE; HUMANISTS
- Publication
Configurations, 2023, Vol 31, Issue 3, p257
- ISSN
1063-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/con.2023.a904490