Feminist Technofutures

Abstract

Abstract In this chapter, Atanasoski problematises two different approaches to sex robots. The first, a liberal feminist approach, characterises sex robots as a threat to women’s rights, and in doing so, roots itself in technology’s relationship to the figure of the human within the juridical realm of rights. The second, a feminist approach centred on diversity, makes use of and commodifies proliferating categories of human difference and life itself by calling for the ‘diversification’ of sex robots beyond white, Eurocentric beauty norms. Atanasoski thus considers how diversified technologies still uphold rather than disrupt racialised notions of use and value, commodifying those differences seen as profitable. She concludes by considering what a queer approach to technological speculative futures might look like through an analysis of the art project ‘Lauren AI’.