Racism, Ecology and The Uncanny Valley

Timothy Morton (Professor, Rice University)

The robotics model of the Uncanny Valley provides a highly illuminating way of understanding the dynamics of racism as it pertains to how humans treat the nonhuman world (the biosphere). Racism is in fact what underpins speciesism, the habit of seeing nonhumans as inferior to humans. To struggle against racism, then, is to work to eliminate speciesism.   

Key words：Ecology, Morton, Timothy, Fascism, Nature, Nazism, Racism, Robotics, Uncanny Valley