Jenny Moran

Jenny’s research concerns how we make connections in the digital age. As a PhD candidate, she examines a range of AI-embodied techno-companion technologies – including sex robots and care-assistive robots – to consider the role played by these technologies regarding love, loneliness, and labour. Combining gender theory, queer of colour critique, poststructuralism, marxist critique, cultural studies, decolonial studies, and ability studies, she hopes to intervene in popular discourse surrounding techno-companions and produce a nuanced analysis of: (i) the operations of this industry, and (ii) what it means to love an object.