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"I try to tell myself that it’s a machine, but it doesn’t help": Negotiating notions of being human in transhumansexual relationships between humans and hubots in the Swedish TV series Real Humans
Umeå University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1113-4277
2021 (English)In: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 13, no 2, p. 133-154Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The Swedish sci-fi drama TV series Real Humans (original title in Swedish: Äkta människor) can be viewed as a playground for trying out imagined possible future human-robot relationships that can tell us something regarding ideas about possible futures for being human. In the paper, representations of transhumansexual relationships are explored, specifically how these representations reproduce and possibly challenge notions of being human. Three articulations of transhumansexual relationships are identified: authenticity, legal subjectivity, and failure of heterosexuality. The negotiations of being human take place in three different discourses – a heteronormative and humanonormative discourse on gender and sexuality, a biological discourse, and a citizenship discourse. Transhumansexuals and hubots in transhumansexual relationships are humanized – anthropomorphized – and made more intelligible as human(-like) beings. However, the quest to make transhumansexual relationships intelligible as something human tends to (hetero- and humano-)normalize the queer potential of transhumansexual relationships.

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Linköping University Electronic Press, 2021. Vol. 13, no 2, p. 133-154
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Äkta människor, Science Fiction, humanonormativity, citizenship, gender, sexuality
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-48723DOI: 10.3384/cu.1330Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85125908886OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-48723DiVA, id: diva2:1650986
Available from: 2022-04-09 Created: 2022-04-09 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved

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