132 Caietele Echinox, vol. 34, 2018: Posthumanist Confgurations Doru Pop Replicant Theologies of the Early Robocene or The Covenant of Procreating Replicants, Cybernetic Fertility and Divine Androids Abstract: The main premise of this paper is based on the hypothesis that classical defnitions about posthumanism are now contested by the transformations in artifcial intelligence research. The most important argument here is that we are at the dawn of a new era, where humans and thinking machines are substituted by procreating hu- manoids. Such possible transformations of human-humanoid interactions are interpret- ed by using two case studies, two cinematic posthuman narratives from the science fc- tion genre – two 2017 productions centered on new representations robotic life: Blade Runner 2049 and Alien: Covenant. Keywords: Cybernetic Posthumanity; The Posthuman Subject; Posthuman Bodies; The Posthuman Condition; Posthuman Culture or Posthuman Society. Doru Pop Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania popdoru@gmail.com DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2018.34.10 W e are at the dawn of a new era. Hubots or humanoids, robotic machines that behave like humans, are increasingly part of our society. Some accept these changes as inevitable, others fear the worse. Recently the features displayed by Atlas, the machine created by the researchers at Boston Dy- namic, led Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, to join the chorus of prophets menacing us with the dangers of artifcial intelligence getting out of control. In some contexts hu- man-like robots, who are developing social interaction skills at unprecedented levels, are fully accepted. Te most mediated example today is Sophia, the self-proclaimed artif- cial intelligence which claimed she lived as a “real live electronic girl,” and which an- nounced publicly that she wanted to create her own family. Sophia, and her possible fu- ture hubot partner, would most probably live in Saudi Arabia, where the robot has already got full citizenship. Tere they could raise their “children,” as this primeval “hubot” an- nounced that machines like her deserved to have ofspring. 1 Te very existence of Sophia – which raises several other ethical and ideological questions, such as the hypocritical accep- tance of a woman robot in a society refusing