Androidism
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Androidism is the sexual arousal by robots with human features, and sometimes in play, arousal by pretend-robot features. This may include arousal from prosthetics, models, or whole human forms or parts.
Some psychologists treat androidism as a psychosis, like schizophrenia, caused by "Alienation" and "absence of empathy". The phenomenal success of characters like commander data or seven of nine in star trek, give the impression that this describes any geeky 14 year old boy in America.
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in literature
See Hayles's discussion of the "dark side of autopoietic reflexivity"([1]) in the work of Philip K Dick.
in film
- Films such as Bladerunner, Barbarella, Short Circuit, Flesh Gordon, ALIEN, Westworld, Futureworld, and The Stepford Wives have depicted androidism.
see also
external links
- http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.arts.startrek.current/msg/3b9fa958fc36a9c8
- http://www.shinraonline.com/board/showthread.php?t=124798
- "How We Became Posthuman", Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
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References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Androidism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androidism, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
