“I try to tell myself that it’s a machine, but it doesn’t help”

Q2 Social Sciences
Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2022-02-17 DOI:10.3384/cu.1330
Johan Hallqvist
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The Swedish sci-fi drama TV series Real Humans (original title in Swedish: Äkta människor) can be viewed as a playground for trying out imagined possible future human-robot relationships that can tell us something regarding ideas about possible futures for being human. In the paper, representations of ttranshumansexual relationships are explored, specifically how these representations reproduce and possibly challenge notions of being human. Three articulations of transhumansexual relationships are identified: authenticity, legal subjectivity, and failure of heterosexuality. The negotiations of being human take place in three different discourses – a heteronormative and humanonormative discourse on gender and sexuality, a biological discourse, and a citizenship discourse. Transhumansexuals and hubots in transhumansexual relationships are humanized – anthropomorphized – and made more intelligible as human(-like) beings. However, the quest to make transhumansexual relationships intelligible as something human tends to (hetero- and humano-)normalize the queer potential of transhumansexual relationships    
“我试着告诉自己这是一台机器,但无济于事。”
瑞典科幻电视剧《真实人类》(原瑞典语:Äkta människor)可以被视为一个游乐场,用来尝试想象未来人类与机器人之间可能的关系,它可以告诉我们一些关于人类未来可能的想法。本文探讨了超人类性关系的表征,特别是这些表征如何再现并可能挑战人类的概念。本文确定了超人类性关系的三种表达方式:真实性、法律主体性和异性恋的失败。作为人类的谈判发生在三种不同的话语中——关于性别和性的异性恋规范和人类规范话语,生物话语和公民话语。超人类性爱者和超人类性关系中的hubots被人性化了——拟人化了——并且作为人类(类似人类)的存在变得更容易理解。然而,将超人类的性关系理解为人类的东西,往往会使(异性恋和人类)超人类性关系的酷儿潜能正常化
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Culture Unbound
Culture Unbound Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
CiteScore
0.90
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32
审稿时长
20 weeks
期刊介绍: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is a journal for border-crossing cultural research, globally open to articles from all areas in this large field, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents for exploring cultural perspectives, issues and phenomena. It is peer-reviewed and easily accessible for downloading as open access. Culture Unbound is hosted by Linköping University Electronic Press (LiU E-Press, www.ep.liu.se). It is based on a co-operation between three Linköping University units that provide a unique profile to the journal, bridging regional and global research traditions: -The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), with interdisciplinary transnational exchange. -The Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q), with interdisciplinary research and PhD education.
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