Posthuman Knowledge and Technology with Rosi Braidotti
The Good Robot
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The Conflicted Relationship Between Technology and Feminism
Feminism has this conflicted relationship with technology. We hear a lot about how technology is being built to reconstruct old ideas about gender and the pre-suffragette times. Can you expand on that? It's a complex set of premises because if you're looking at the social history of technologies there are really clear historical moments where the social imaginary narrates the technologies in very different terms. You see clearly in the classic films like Metropolis which has been analyzed over and over again the good robot Maria leading the revolution of and also threatening the future.
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