Welcome To Our New Fembot Overlords: Examining Female Robot Pop Culture.

New York Times‘ Amanda Hess and Shane O’Neill delves into our modern obsession with Pop idols Kendall Jenner and Poppy, mirroring them with our past pet projects in creating the so-called “perfect” woman. (Weird Science, anyone?) Check out the vid below.

 

This duo do tons more interesting vids for NYT. Check out more of them over there.

Featured image by nonshung.

Published by Colm Hogan

Publisher/Chief Contributor to Digitized Graffiti; a blog devoted to music, culture & technology. Author of Ice Cold Nights & Crack Whore Pickup. I'm also a documentary filmmaker. I directed Matatu Express, The Legend of 23 Hop & Back To The Zone. Some of my work in historical urban culture preservation has been featured in Vice, BlogTO, Then & Now and more recently; Sarah Ross' new book: Law & Intangible Cultural Heritage in the City.

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