Digital Stimulation considers the subject of intimacy, including sexual intimacy, between humans and machines, both in the imagination and in reality as well. In fiction and in fact, social robots are frequently gendered as women. It is therefore important to address their potential to reinforce, or perhaps to reinvent, existing attitudes and expectations about gender, including nonbinary and transgender identities, as well as race, class, disability, and other aspects of identity.
This book provides an overview of the history of robots depicted in popular culture, especially science fiction, as well as an overview of the history of sex toys, including blow up dolls and, more recently, lifelike sex dolls. This invites an examination of the current and ongoing development of robots designed explicitly for intimate engagement with humans. The book explores positive (and often overly optimistic) attitudes, as well as negative (and often overly sensational) negative attitudes about the potential impact of robots and artificial intelligence. Finally, Digital Stimulation considers the possible ways in which future robot design might consciously disrupt the limitations of a binary system of gender, sex, and sexuality.
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Mimi Marinuccis book addresses an incredibly timely topic with nuance and compassion. Digital Stimulation helps readers move beyond whatever fears they might have about new technologies such as robots and AI, and shows us how these technologies can be part of our intimate lives. And she gives us the context we need to make sense of the strange new world that is in fact already here. * Neil McArthur, University of Manitoba, Canada * Digital Stimulation adeptly reviews our current modes of interacting with robot others while calling for a more thoughtful approach to all our future relationships. * James M. Okapal, Missouri Western State University, USA *
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Digital Stimulation explores the philosophical significance of intimacy, including sexual intimacy, between humans and machines, particularly social robots and sex robots.
Chapter One: History of Robots from Fiction to Fact
Chapter Two: History of Sexual Aids from Dildos to Dolls
Chapter Three: New Developments in Social Robots and Sex Robots
Chapter Four: Problems of Consciousness, Minds, and Moral Consideration
Chapter Five: Exploring the Promise of Social Robots and Sex Robots
Chapter Six: Exploring the Fear of Social Robots and Sex Robots
Chapter Seven: Guiding the Queer Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Mimi Marinucci is Professor of Philosophy and of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Washington University, USA. Marinucci is the author of Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory (Bloomsbury, 2010)
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