Forthcoming

Moran, J. C. Love in the time of AI: Essays on What it Means to be Human. Chicago IL: Haymarket Books (Expected 2027).

Moran, J. C. “Octavia Knew More: Terasem, TESCREAL, and the Uncritical Embrace of Earthseed from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series.” Configurations 34(2) (Expected May 2026).

Peer-Reviewed Academic Writing

Moran, J. C. (2025) “Love Makes Robots Human: Loveability and the Politics of Liveliness.” Theory Culture and Society, Online First. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251363070

Moran, J. C. (2025) Invited Review of Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin. Community Development Journal. Online First. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsaf043

Moran, J. C. (2024) “Artificial Intelligibility: The Role of Gender in Assigning Humanness to Natural Language Processing Systems.” The Journal of Gender Studies 34(2), pp.300-310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2348482

Moran, J. C. (2020) “Programming Power and the Power of Programming: An Analysis of Racialised and Gendered Sex Robots,” in Feminist Philosophy of Technology, ed. Janina Loh and Mark Coeckelbergh. Berlin: Springer. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04967-4_3

TL;DR?

You can check out an accesible conversation about this research area with Dr Alina Utrata on The Anti-Dystopians podcast - https://shows.acast.com/the-anti-dystopians/episodes/but-daddy-i-love-my-chatgpt-boyfriend-robots-and-loveability