Can we fall in love with everything?
In 2018, in Japan, a 35-year-old employee celebrates his marriage to a digital pop idol, Hatsune Miku, causing a media storm. The reasons that drive so many people here and elsewhere to form privileged relationships with non-humans, even to the point of giving them the semblance of conjugal bliss, a...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/terrain, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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2024
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | In 2018, in Japan, a 35-year-old employee celebrates his marriage to a digital pop idol, Hatsune Miku, causing a media storm. The reasons that drive so many people here and elsewhere to form privileged relationships with non-humans, even to the point of giving them the semblance of conjugal bliss, are misunderstood. In order to elucidate why certain objects arouse public debate concerning their power of seduction, a detour through anthropology is necessary, which allows us to study all the borderline forms of the amorous relation. In doing so, it is a matter of questioning the idea according to which such bonds are the result of aberration. What does an amorous and/or sexual attachment to a non-human – a robot, a doll, an organ, a car or a tree – reveal about the society that prescribes or proscribes it? |
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