>"How do we create synthetic bodies without the histories and habits of how we have previously treated, known, and organized different bodies?"

>"How do we create synthetic bodies without the histories and habits of how we have previously treated, known, and organized different bodies?"

Chude-Sokei (2019) begins by challenging the parallels between humans and machines that David Levy (2007) mobilizes in his controversial book Love and Sex with Robots.

"How do we create synthetic bodies without the histories and habits of how we have previously treated, known, and organized different bodies?"

The history of technology, from industrialization to cybernetics, from robotics to AI, has in fact been replete with this type of casual parallel between humans and machines, non-whites and robots, technology and social, cultural “others

When robot creatures are generally perceived as being similar to biological creatures, the effect on society will be enormous.