Der Körper als Palimpsest: Erinnerungstopographien zwischen Schrift und Leiblichkeit

New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia?

“…The assumption became even more powerful, when, from the 17th century onward, the religious framework that had governed science before, was bit by bit substituted for a secular one. Scientists now no longer held that it was man's God-given mission to "fill the earth and subdue it," and to "rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves the ground" (Genesis 1:28), yet the Cartesian disjunction of res cogitans and res extensa (Reinhardt 2016) further entrenched the fundamental opposition between the realms of the human and the nonhuman, between subject and object (Descola 2011). One might even go one step further and claim with Bruno Latour that this separation (or rather its immediate corruption) marks the very birth of modern society.…”