The Good Robot

Anne Anlin Cheng on Gender, Technology, and Racial Embodiment

October 12, 2021 University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
The Good Robot
Anne Anlin Cheng on Gender, Technology, and Racial Embodiment
Show Notes

In this episode, we chat to Anne Anlin Cheng, Professor in the Department of English at Princeton University and author of Ornamentalism. We discuss how Asiatic femininity has historically been associated with ornamental extravagance and objecthood, and why we see so many of these stereotypes in visions of the future, like Ghost in the Shell, Bladerunner and Ex Machina, which are populated with geishas and concubines. 

[We would like to apologise for the sound quality on this episode, we had technical difficulties]

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