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AI and posthuman romance in literature and film / Seiwoong Oh 1

Abstract 1

contents 2

1. Introduction 2

1.1. Helen O'Loyr -a short story by Lester Del Rey (1938) 4

1.2. H.E.R. -screenplay by Spike Jonze (2011) 4

1.3. Ex Machina -screenplay by Alex Garland (2015) 5

1.4. Blade Runner 2049 -screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green (2017) 5

2. The Shape of an Ideal Partner 5

3. Male Chauvinistic Undertone 7

4. AI-supported Posthuman Romance 9

5. Digisexuality 11

6. Conclusion 15

References 16

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From Pygmalion’s Galatea in Greek mythology to Joi in Blade Runner 2049, literary and cinematic writers explored the possibility of men’s heteronormative romantic relationships with women created by art and technology. In recent decades, with artificial intelligence growing even more powerful, writers can even imagine digital, virtual, or robotic beings capable of becoming heterosexual men’s ideal romantic partners, who may even be capable of reproduction.

This paper examines the representation of digital, virtual and robotic female companions depicted in literature and film: “Helen O’Loy” (1938), HER (2014), Ex-Machina (2015), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). While this history of creative imagination mirrors the male-dominant culture of Silicon Valley and even suggests an implicit desire to return to the old misogynistic gender politics, the reception of these works points to an interesting cultural, psychological, and literary insight into the changing paradigms or “algorithms” of romantic love and gender relations in our posthuman era. Sooner or later, “digisexuality” may become one of the widely recognized sexual identities.