The Homo Deus Protocol & The Interplay of Android Science Fiction and Theories of Emotion

Abstract

My PhD project investigates the interplay of android science fiction and theories of emotion to critique classical perspectives of emotion in favour of a constructionist framework. This project analyses the context and representations of androids in science fiction by drawing upon scholarship from science fiction studies in conjunction with robotics and emotion psychology. I propose new possibilities of understanding and agency for android characters and the android–human relationship in this subgenre of science fiction.