Desire in the Age of Robots and AI

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This book examines how science fictions portrayal of humanitys desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desiresin short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explains the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictateand are in return recreated by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; its a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.

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Rebecca Gibson, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She specializes in bioanthropology, and serves as a juror for the Speculative Literature Foundations Working Class Writers grant. Her work has been published in NEXUS, and in Sexuality & Culture.          

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