A new book is being written by Dominique Mainon, who plans to discuss transhumanism, evolution of robots, cyborgs, and androids in cinema under the context of love/sex.

She is introduced by Dr. J at IEET as following:

Dominique Mainon (dominiquemainon.com), an author, screenwriter, and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is author of, among others, Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies, Femme Fatale: Cinema’s Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies, and The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen.

Listen to Dr. J’s interview with her at IEET. I would actually suggest you start listening from 15:00 to skip details of her earlier work in porn industry etc, which isn’t too related to roboethics.

She tells us a little bit about what she plans to write in her book, and some patterns she’s been finding from recent robot movies – particularly, the fact that robots used to be conveyed as the evil one trying to destroy humanity, but recent movies tend to portray robots as the one with more humanity than humans (eg. the movie, Moon)

Some of the movies mentioned include:

Moon, Blade Runner, True Science, Perfect Woman, Creating Maria, and Terminator Salvation.

If you haven’t watched all of them, this might give you a good excuse for you to watch them during your work/break time.

Go to IEET’s website to listen to the interview:

Cinema’s Amazons and Cyborgs.