{"product_id":"digital-stimulation-mimi-marinucci-9780755639823","title":"Digital Stimulation: Fascination, Familiarity, and Fantasy in Human Relationships with Robots","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Stimulation\u003c\/i\u003e explores the subject of intimacy, including romantic and sexual intimacy, between human and nonhuman entities, particularly technological entities. As relationships between humans and machines become increasingly prevalent, it is important to address the potential for such relationships to reflect, to reinforce, or to reinvent existing hierarchies. The distinction between man and machine, like the distinction between man and beast, between man and brute, between man and nature, between man and woman, and so on, is an expression of the anthropocentrism and androcentrism permeating western ideas of self and other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConcerns about the representation (or misrepresentation) and treatment (or mistreatment) of machines are of consequence for other human and nonhuman others as well, and this book details many of the ways in which depictions of machines, especially robots, mirror ideas and attitudes about various human and nonhuman others. This book also addresses the ongoing development of machines designed explicitly for intimate engagement with humans, such as sex robots. As they become more and more lifelike, it becomes progressively more urgent to cultivate compassion toward such machines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mimi Marinucci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0755639820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780755639823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Mimi Marinucci","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46233275859199,"sku":"9780755639823","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6efec159-fb30-4f23-a908-002fa1f4764c.jpg?v=1728992564","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-stimulation-mimi-marinucci-9780755639823","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}