Entanglements
Journal of Posthumanities

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Editor-in-Chief: Sukhendu Das, Bankura University
Executive Editor: Baloram Balo, Doctoral Scholar, University of Kalyani

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“Retro-Futuristic” Expedition Of Howard Leed’s Small Wonder
Authored By — Lovelyn Pinto

Abstract

Popular culture and literature have served as fertile ground for the germination of ideas that eventually find their way into the fabric of the everyday lives of human existence. From the pages of science fiction novels to the silver screen of vanes blockbuster movies, inventions, and innovations conceived in the realm of imagination have often transcended the boundaries of fiction to reshape the world. This research project is an endeavor to explore a similar trajectory of representation of humanoids in a ‘reel’ world portrayal, Howard Leed’s Small Wonder, a nineteen eighties American sci-fi sitcom, and its projection to ‘real life’ humanoids of the twenty-first century. The sitcom shall be analyzed through the critical and philosophical lens of Posthumanism. How the sitcom has been instrumental in the early dawning of the technological renaissance, at the same time how it has reinforced certain stereotypes related to robots and gendered artificial intelligence shall be explored. This research is an amalgamation of Humanities, STS, and Literary Studies encompassing various theories and practical applications, to navigate the nuances of Science Fiction and the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Keywords

Post-human turn, Uncanny Valley Theory, embodied subject, transhuman identity
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