K. Tempest BradfordMay 23, 2023

"Narratives that use robots and androids to represent the Other often don’t interrogate the assumptions about humanity at their core because they fail to answer one question:
Why are so many androids white?"

Read the rest of my essay "Androids and Allegory" at Twelfth Planet Press.

Edit: changed link to HTTP, hopefully that solves the problem!

http://motherofinvention.twelfthplanetpress.com/2018/07/02/androids-and-allegory/

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Androids and Allegory

By K. Tempest Bradford The science fiction genre digs its allegories. Scratch the surface of any piece of literature, movie, or TV show that features alien races, advanced or mutant humans, robots,…

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Show threadJW prince of CPHMay 23, 2023
@tempest Can't open the link for some reason, so I'm unsure how this may relate to your point - but I'm reminded of the poignant "disposable people" scene from "Measure of a Man" where Guinan correctly identifies the relationship that's about to be established with sentient artificial people 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T9TUeapBSQ
Star Trek TNG S2E9: Picard and Guinan on the nature of value, property and disposable creatures.

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@jwcph Guinan was a master of the Socratic method.
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