Feminist investigations into caring technologies emphasise the tension between their reproduction of care’s assumed femininity and their ability to destabilise gendered markers and systems. However, the existing literature ignores the historical racialisation of care and its perpetuation in the form of the posthuman caring object. This article examines how racialised relations of power shape the posthumanisation of care in three science-fiction works, Channel 4’s television show Humans (2015), Alex Riviera’s film Sleep Dealer (2008) and Spike Jonze’s film Her (2013). While Her’s disembodied operating systems are premised upon an implicit whiteness, posthuman caring objects in Humans and Sleep Dealer take a racialised, embodied form. Drawing upon the work of Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten, this article examines how the racialised objects in Humans and Sleep Dealer are constituted as both labourers and commodities, purchased for the purpose of facilitating white reproductivity. Nonetheless, this article also documents how these caring technologies complicate key binaries such as subject/object, human/machine and productive/reproductive labour. In doing so, they disrupt the whiteness of the social reproduction paradigm. The article concludes by calling for greater feminist engagement with the racialisation of care labour in human and posthuman forms, in order to challenge white, heterosexual models of reproductivity based upon the exploitation of racialised labour.

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机械女仆和家庭机器人：人类种族化的护理后想象（2015-），睡眠经销商（2008）和她（2013）

对护理技术的女权主义调查强调了它们再现护理假定的女性气质与其破坏性别标记和系统稳定的能力之间的紧张关系。然而，现有文献忽视了关怀的历史种族化及其以后人类关怀对象的形式存在。本文探讨了三部科幻作品中的种族化的权力关系如何塑造护理的后人性化：第 4 频道的电视节目《人类》（2015 年）、亚历克斯·里维埃拉的电影《睡眠经销商》（2008 年）和斯派克·琼斯的电影《她》（2013 年）。虽然 Her 的非实体操作系统以隐含的白人为前提，但《人类》和《睡眠经销商》中的后人类关怀对象采取了种族化的、具身化的形式。借鉴 Saidiya Hartman 和 Fred Moten 的工作，本文考察了《人类》和《睡眠经销商》中的种族化对象如何既是劳动力又是商品，其购买目的是为了促进白人的生殖。尽管如此，本文还记录了这些关怀技术如何使主体/客体、人/机器和生产/再生产劳动等关键二元关系复杂化。这样做，他们破坏了社会再生产范式的白度。文章最后呼吁女权主义更多地参与人类和后人类形式的护理劳动的种族化，以挑战基于种族化劳动剥削的白人异性恋生殖模式。本文还记录了这些关怀技术如何使主体/客体、人/机器和生产/再生产劳动等关键二元关系复杂化。这样做，他们破坏了社会再生产范式的白度。文章最后呼吁女权主义更多地参与人类和后人类形式的护理劳动的种族化，以挑战基于种族化劳动剥削的白人异性恋生殖模式。本文还记录了这些关怀技术如何使主体/客体、人/机器和生产/再生产劳动等关键二元关系复杂化。这样做，他们破坏了社会再生产范式的白度。文章最后呼吁女权主义更多地参与人类和后人类形式的护理劳动的种族化，以挑战基于种族化劳动剥削的白人异性恋生殖模式。