Антропологическата митница: роботи и майчини страсти
The Anthropological Customs Checkpoint: Robots and Maternal Passion
Author(s): Miglena NikolchinaSubject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Studies of Literature, Philosophical Traditions, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: fathered by science; artificial creatures; anthropological customs; checkpoint; maternal passion; Julia Kristeva; Svetoslav Minkov
Summary/Abstract: Ever since E. T. A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley, fictional artificial creatures have been tested through shifting trials of humanity. This article reads robotic and android narratives as scenes of an “anthropological customs checkpoint” in which appearance, love, freedom, deception, and finally birth and maternity determine whether the artificial being can pass as human. Against the background of posthumanist and transhumanist debates, the present study argues that recent science-fiction fables increasingly relocate the question of humanity in the robot’s longing to be born, mothered, and endowed with childhood.
Journal: Литературна мисъл
- Issue Year: 69/2026
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 35-48
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Bulgarian
