Rebecca Gibson, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She specializes in bioanthropology, and serves as a juror for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Working Class Writers grant. Her work has been published in NEXUS, and in Sexuality & Culture.

“Gibson’s book is a masterclass in how to analyze literature and film and turn them into useful bits of evidence for a larger ethnographic study. I would recommend Desire in the Age of Robots and AI for both undergraduate and graduate courses in Anthropology, Folklore, Sociology, Film Studies, Literary Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Human Sexuality, and so much more.” (Wayne Fife, Anthropologica, Vol. 63 (1), 2021)

• Chapter 1. The Gears and Wires of Robot Sex.- Chapter 2. What Defines Reality?: Robot/Android Self-Knowledge and Authenticity.- Chapter 3. Incep Dates and Pleasure Models: Death, Life, and Love in Blade Runner.- Chapter 4. Angel Replicants and Solid Holograms—Blade Runner 2049 and Its Impact on Robotics.- Chapter 5. Moving Toward an Acceptance of Robotic Sexuality through Sci-Fi.

Rebecca Gibson, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She specializes in bioanthropology, and serves as a juror for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Working Class Writers grant. Her work has been published in NEXUS, and in Sexuality & Culture.

“Gibson’s book is a masterclass in how to analyze literature and film and turn them into useful bits of evidence for a larger ethnographic study. I would recommend Desire in the Age of Robots and AI for both undergraduate and graduate courses in Anthropology, Folklore, Sociology, Film Studies, Literary Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Human Sexuality, and so much more.” (Wayne Fife, Anthropologica, Vol. 63 (1), 2021)

• Chapter 1. The Gears and Wires of Robot Sex.- Chapter 2. What Defines Reality?: Robot/Android Self-Knowledge and Authenticity.- Chapter 3. Incep Dates and Pleasure Models: Death, Life, and Love in Blade Runner.- Chapter 4. Angel Replicants and Solid Holograms—Blade Runner 2049 and Its Impact on Robotics.- Chapter 5. Moving Toward an Acceptance of Robotic Sexuality through Sci-Fi.

Rebecca Gibson, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She specializes in bioanthropology, and serves as a juror for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Working Class Writers grant. Her work has been published in NEXUS, and in Sexuality & Culture.

“Gibson’s book is a masterclass in how to analyze literature and film and turn them into useful bits of evidence for a larger ethnographic study. I would recommend Desire in the Age of Robots and AI for both undergraduate and graduate courses in Anthropology, Folklore, Sociology, Film Studies, Literary Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Human Sexuality, and so much more.” (Wayne Fife, Anthropologica, Vol. 63 (1), 2021)

• Chapter 1. The Gears and Wires of Robot Sex.- Chapter 2. What Defines Reality?: Robot/Android Self-Knowledge and Authenticity.- Chapter 3. Incep Dates and Pleasure Models: Death, Life, and Love in Blade Runner.- Chapter 4. Angel Replicants and Solid Holograms—Blade Runner 2049 and Its Impact on Robotics.- Chapter 5. Moving Toward an Acceptance of Robotic Sexuality through Sci-Fi.