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Journal articles on the topic "Transhumanism in literature"
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Khvastunova, Yulia V. "POPULARIZATION OF THE IDEAS OF TRANSHUMANISM IN FICTION (THE CASE STUDY OF THE NOVEL “TRANSHUMANISM INC” BY V. PELEVIN)." Russian Studies in Culture and Society 6, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2576-9782-2022-2-29-41.
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This paper presents a comparative analysis of transhumanist provisions and ideas manifested through fiction, particularly, in the novel by V.O. Pelevin “Transhumanism Inc”. The common points of convergence are revealed: the author’s interpretation of a number of transhumanistic ideas and possible variations of transhumanistic scenarios implemented in the novel by V.O. Pelevin. The paper concludes that the ideas of transhumanism are undoubtedly close to the postmodern literature, there is an ongoing popularization of transhumanism in the Russian literature, and there are some stereotypical emphases and fatigue in the writer’s vision of transhumanist perspectives.
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Rufikasari, Defrita, and Yahya Wijaya. "Kebangkitan Kristus dan Upaya Membangkitkan Manusia dari Kematian: Telaah Teologis Terhadap Transhumanisme-krionik." GEMA TEOLOGIKA: Jurnal Teologi Kontekstual dan Filsafat Keilahian 8, no. 2 (October 25, 2023): 135–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21460/gema.2023.82.960.
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AbstractThe resurrection of Christ is often associated exclusively with the context of Easter, the redemption of the sinful humans, and the hope of the future resurrection of the faithful. The resurrection from the dead is mentioned several times both in the Old and the New Testaments. Interestingly, both Christianity and transhumanism tend to deny death. In terms of Christianity, that is indicated in the theological view of the resurrection of Christ and the believers; while in that of transhumanism the denial of death is implied in thedevelopment of nanotechnology and cryogenics aiming at raising people from the dead. They both promise an incorruptible and antifragile life. But do they share the same meeting point or have a common ground? Can the resurrection of Christ be interpreted from the vision of transhumanism that opens up opportunities for humans to improve their quality of life? This writing describes the views of several thinkers about transhumanism and their relations to theology, especially concerning the issue of the resurrection. The method used is qualitative research with a descriptive model based on a literature study and a public theology approach putting into discussion the existing thoughts on transhumanism, their relationshipswith religions, and the interpretation of Christ’s resurrection as the meeting point of the redemption theology and transhumanism. AbstrakPemaknaan kebangkitan Kristus acapkali hanya dilekatkan dalam konteks Paskah, penebusan dosa manusia dan harapan akan kebangkitan yang sama akan dialami oleh umat beriman. Peristiwa kebangkitan dari kematian sebetulnya beberapa kali muncul dalam Alkitab baik Perjanjian Lama atau Baru. Menariknya, jika dilihat sekilas, baik Kekristenan dan Transhumanisme nampak sama-sama menolak kematian. Kekristenandengan pandangan teologi kebangkitan Kristus dan orang beriman, sedangkan transhumanisme dengan pengembangan nanoteknologi dan kriogenik yang membangkitkan orang dari kematian. Keduanya nampak sama-sama menjanjikan kehidupan yang tidak fana dan rapuh. Namun benarkah keduanya memiliki titik temu yang sama? Memiliki landasan yang sama? Apakah kebangkitan Kristus nantinya akan dapat juga dimaknai dari visi transhumanisme yang membuka peluang bagi manusia meningkatkan kualitas hidupnya? Penulisan ini bertujuan untuk menguraikan pandangan-pandangan beberapa pemikir tentang transhumanisme dan kaitannya dengan teologi, khususnya kebangkitan dari mati. Metode yang digunakan adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan model deskriptif berdasarkan studi pustaka dan pendekatan teologi publik untuk mendialogkan pemikiran-pemikiran yang ada terkait topik transhumanisme, relasi dengan agama, dan pemaknaan kebangkitan Kristus sebagai titik temu dari karya penebusan dan transhumanisme.
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Steinhoff, James. "Transhumanism and Marxism." Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 24, no. 2 (May 1, 2014): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v24i2.18.
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There exists a real dearth of literature available to Anglophones dealing with philosophical connections between transhumanism and Marxism. This is surprising, given the existence of works on just this relation in the other major European languages and the fact that 47 per cent of people surveyed in the 2007 Interests and Beliefs Survey of the Members of the World Transhumanist Association identified as “left,” though not strictly Marxist (Hughes 2008). Rather than seeking to explain this dearth here, I aim to contribute to its being filled in by identifying three fundamental areas of similarity between transhumanism and Marxism. These are: the importance of material conditions, and particularly technological advancement, for revolution; conceptions of human nature; and conceptions of nature in general. While it is true that both Marxism and (especially) transhumanism are broad fields that encompass diverse positions, even working with somewhat generalized characterizations of the two reveals interesting parallels and dissimilarities fruitful for future work.
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Siedlecka, Paulina. "Transhumanizm w uniwersum „Wiedźmina”." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 99–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.851.
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In the 21st century, concepts of human modification and improvement increasingly appear in scientific literature, extending beyond the realm of fantasy. Influenced by successful, advanced technological experiments, these concepts are transitioning from literary fiction to more serious philosophical discourse. This ancient quest first found literary expression in the 19th century, notably in the works of Jules Verne. Transhumanism in fantasy is primarily associated with science fiction, featuring human enhancement through advanced technology in narratives about distant futures, space travel, other planets, and the cyberpunk genre. However, the presence of transhumanist themes in fantasy literature receives less attention. In these cases, modifications are typically achieved through spells or the magical properties of potions and plants. In Poland, the most notable example is Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher universe, further developed by CD Projekt Red’s video games. The most literal example is the witchers, monster slayers created through magical mutations. Wizards represent a less obvious group of enhanced characters. Similarly, Princess Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon embodies transhumanist aspirations. These examples collectively illustrate the diverse manifestations of transhumanism in fantasy literature.
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Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. "Accountable Metaphors: The Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.02.
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Tao Lin’s novel Taipei (2013) can be described as a picture of transhuman existence in the current digital world. However, its poetics of failure does not seem to adjust to the typically utopian visions that have often been related to transhumanism. Instead, the novel’s aesthetic approach resists diverse forms of transhumanist universalism in ways that are closer to the theoretical premises of critical posthumanism and agential materialism. In this article, I analyze Lin’s use of accountable metaphors and poetic failure in Taipei as a means to resist uncritical claims to transhumanist, universalist aesthetics.
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Linett, Maren. "All Winged Their Supermen: Mina Loy, Olive Moore, and the Transhumanist Imagination." ELH 90, no. 4 (December 2023): 1159–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a914019.
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Abstract: Recent scholarship has demonstrated some of the ways modernism depends on eugenic thinking. Exploring similarities and differences between eugenics and early transhumanism, this article identifies in modernist literature a strand of more radical transhumanist desire. Looking in particular at Mina Loy's poems "Parturition" and "Songs to Joannes" and Olive Moore's novel Spleen , it argues that these texts turn the modernist call to "make it new" on human beings ourselves, as Loy and Moore imagine maternity as a means to advance evolution, if only it could transcend the disappointing reproducibility of the human being.
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ROLDÁN ROMERO, VANESA. "TRANSHUMANISM AND THE ANTHROPOCENE IN BECKY CHAMBERS’ A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 26 (2022): 77–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.04.
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Transhumanism has been rising in both popularity and influence on western societies and philosophical thought. Dreams of mind transfer, immortality, or cloning as well as the fear of sentient and intelligent artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced in some of Netflix’s most popular series such as Altered Carbon (2018), from the novel by Richard K. Morgan, or Orphan Black (2013), to mention just a few. Similarly, transhumanism may be spotted in Becky Chambers’ fiction. The novel analysed in this paper, A Closed and Common Orbit (2016), a sequel in the author’s Wayfarers series, explores the possibility of cloning human bodies, the production of sentient AI, and the subsequent ethical implications of both science fiction tropes. Far from showing transhumanism as a miracle solution to limitations in human bodies and capacity to avoid climate change, the text presents the suspicions and fears transhumanism may raise in the USA. This article provides evidence of how the Anthropocene and transhumanism operate in Becky Chambers’ novel, the ethical effects concerning intrinsic and extrinsic values and their possible subversion through a posthumanist alliance under the Anthropocene.
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Agar, Nicholas. "Whereto Transhumanism? The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass." Hastings Center Report 37, no. 3 (2007): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcr.2007.0034.
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Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana. "(Un)Human Relations: Transhumanism in Francesco Verso’s Nexhuman." Quaderni d'italianistica 37, no. 2 (January 27, 2018): 211–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v37i2.29236.
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Transhumanism is an international movement which espouses the idea that any human organ, function, sense, ability, can be augmented and ameliorated with the judicious use of technology. The ethical, cultural, social, biological, economic implications for this view are far-reaching and point to a number of complex questions whose solution eludes researchers so far. One of the possible sources for answers to these is found in science fiction. While transhumanism is a relatively recent phenomenon (last 25 years or so), science fiction published in English that mirrors some of its issues and ideas has been flourishing for at least as long. In Italy, science fiction is starting to enjoy popularity and critical depth in no small measure due to the untiring abilities of a number of authors. This article analyzes the intersections between human and machine as they are portrayed in Francesco Verso’s Nexhuman. Francesco Verso has published 4 award-winning science fiction novels and a number of short stories. Nexhuman offers a considerable narrative construct which paints a dystopian future where trash is formed and re-formed, sold and reworked; however, strong emotions are not absent, since love may flourish in this “kipple”-laden setting, as well as violence and obsession. Transhumanist ideas explicitly dealt with in the novel include the end of death, the question of the soul, mind uploading, limb prosthesis, the co-existence of humans with mind-uploaded beings. The amalgam between human and machine does away with the Self and the Other(s) as separate entities and constructs a completely different Weltanschauung. Nexhuman is not only a transhumanist trailblazer within the flourishing arena of Italian science fiction, but also a springboard for deeper understanding of what makes us human and the extent to which binary categories need to be overcome in order to create a more accommodating world.
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Duda, Katarzyna. "Wirtualna rzeczywistość świata postnowoczesnego (na przykładzie wybranych utworów współczesnej literatury rosyjskiej)." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.847.
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The aim of the article presented here is to define virtual reality in a post-modern world in which revolutionary technological transformations are taking place before our eyes. Thus, we are witnessing the implementation into our existence of new entities created in the first instance by the sciences including information technology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. The latter fields of knowledge have become our research object, with examples drawn from selected works of contemporary Russian literature. It turns out that transhumanism in Russia has its prehistory, for example, the cosmism of Nikolai Fyodorov, and is intensively developing in the present day, for example, the organisation, the Russian Transhumanist Movement. In terms of fiction related to the desire to transform homo sapiens into homo superior, Andrei Platonov, Yevgeny Zamiatin, Mikhail Bulgakov highlight this trend. In contemporary times, the themes of transhumanism, immortalism, cryonics, and artificial intelligence have been taken up by Tatyana Tolstaya, Olga Slavnikova, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, among others. On the pages of their novels, they present how utopia understood as a pipe dream is transformed into utopia – an experiment. The rapid development of civilization forces us to have moral doubts: “unfrozen” after a few hundred years, man may not adapt in a new environment. Artificial intelligence threatens to transform human beings into their replicas, cyborgs, taking over people’s jobs and threatening unemployment. This in turn contradicts the idea of eternal life, raising questions about whether replicas of humans will be endowed with consciousness and emotions, or whether humans transformed from creatures to creators will still remain human.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Transhumanism in literature"
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Raulerson, Joshua Thomas. "Singularities: technoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the 21st Century." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2968.
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A spectre is haunting contemporary technoculture: the spectre of Singularity. Ten years into a century thus far characterized chiefly by the catastrophic failure of global economic and political systems, deepening ecological anxieties, and slow-motion social crisis, the only sector of our collective cultural myth of Progress still vibrantly intact is the technological - a project which, in vivid contrast to the systemic failure that seemingly prevails at nearly every other level, continues to charge forward at breakneck speed. Since the late twentieth century, prompted by the all-but-exponential growth of machine intelligence and global information networks, and by the still largely obscure but increasingly profound-seeming implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists alike have postulated an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed in a sudden explosion of technological development. This moment of transcendence, it is supposed, is at most only a few years off; indeed, some say, it may have already begun. The "Singularity" - a term coined in 1986 by the mathematician and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse - is at present the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, an area in which the longstanding binary distinctions between science and SF, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. As much as the Singularity thesis implies a total reorganization of society and of the self - which posthumanist cultural studies and cyborg theory have already begun mapping - it also poses a daunting existential challenge to the enterprise of SF itself, to the extent that the Singularity imposes what Vinge has described as "an opaque wall across the future," an impenetrable cognitive obstacle beyond which the extrapolative imagination cannot glimpse. For a genre long defined by its efforts to assert, through the narrative technique of extrapolation, a meaningful continuity between present and future, the Singularity presents a thorny problem indeed, demanding both a reevaluation of SF's conception of and orientation toward the future, and a new narrative model capable of grappling with the alien and often paradoxical complexity of the postsingular.
This study is an inquiry into the properties and problematics of Singularity across fictional and nonfictional discourses, and as such it operates on two levels. Reading Singularitarian literature against a broadly articulated context of fringe-science and transhumanist movements, consumer culture, political and economic theory, and related areas of contemporary cyber- and technoculture, I examine how the metaphor of Singularity structures and signifies the aspirations and anxieties of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century technocivilization. As a project of literary criticism specifically, the study works to identify and theorize a grouping of texts that is emerging from cyberpunk and postcyberpunk tendencies in contemporary SF, organized around the premises of Singularity and the posthuman, and classifiable primarily in terms of an attempt to mount a response to the formal and conceptual problems Vinge has identified. Primary readings are drawn from a wide-ranging selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century technocultural fiction, with emphasis on SF works by Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, and William Gibson.
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Mérard, Aurélien. "La figure du posthumain : pour une approche transmédiale." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30048/document.
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Ce travail s’attache à étudier les figures de la posthumanité en s’appuyant sur un corpus transmédial et transnational et à répondre à deux questions principales : Peut-on, au travers de la figure du posthumain, percer à jour les désirs et les angoisses de l'homme de ce millénaire encore naissant ? Comment l'expérience de pensée posthumaine, mise en mouvement par la fiction, questionne-t-elle la notion même d'humanité ? Dans un premier temps, il met en relief les liens existant entre la posthumanité et ce territoire homogène et récurrent dans le corpus, qu’on nommera à la suite d'Antonio Negri et Michael Hardt, l’Empire. Dans un second temps il s’intéresse à la plasticité du corps et de l’esprit posthumains, à la façon dont leurs multiples avatars se déploient à travers le temps ainsi qu’aux raisons qui sous-tendent cette extrême plasticité. Enfin, dans un dernier mouvement, il s’attelle à montrer que, loin de s’inscrire dans un imaginaire radicalement nouveau, le post-humain procède en fait du réagencement ou de la reconfiguration d’un imaginaire anthropologique déjà bien ancré dans l’inconscient collectifThis work focus on the study of the posthuman figures. It is based on a transmedial and transnational corpus. It seeks to answer two key questions : can we expose, through the posthuman figure, the desires and the anguishes of this still rising millennium’s man ? How the posthuman thought experiment, set into motion by the fiction, challenge the very concept of humanity ? As a first step, this work emphasizes on the links that exist between posthumanity and this homogeneous and reccuring, in our fictions, territory that Antonio Negri and Micharl Hardt call Empire. Then, it’s interested in the plasticity of the posthuman bodies and minds, in the way that their numerous avatars expand through time as well as the reasons that underlie this extreme plasticity. Lastly, he tries to show that the posthuman do not fall into a dramatic new imagination, but that it proceeds, in fact, of the reordering or the reconfiguration of a anthropological imagination already well rooted in the collective unconscious
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Franssen, Trijsje Marie. "Prometheus through the ages." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15889.
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This dissertation explores the role and significance of the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus in Western philosophy from Antiquity to today. Paying particular attention to its moral and existential meanings, an analysis of this in-depth investigation produces an overview of the exceptional array of the myth’s functions and themes. It demonstrates that the most significant functions of the Prometheus myth are its social, epistemic, ontological and moral functions and that the myth’s most significant themes are fire, rebellion, creation, human nature and ambiguity. The dissertation argues that this analysis brings to light meaningful information on two sides of a reference to the Prometheus myth: it reveals the nature, functions, themes and connotations of the myth, while information about these functions and themes provides access to fundamental meanings, moral statements and ontological concepts of the studied author. Based on its findings this work claims that, as in history, first, the Prometheus myth will still be meaningful in philosophy today; and second, that the analysis of the myth’s functions and themes will provide access to essential ideas underlying contemporary references to the myth. To prove the validity of these claims this thesis examines the contemporary debate on ‘human enhancement’. Advocates as well as opponents of enhancement make use of the Prometheus myth in order to support their arguments. Employing the acquired knowledge about the myth’s functions and themes, the dissertation analyses the references encountered. The results of this analysis confirm that the Prometheus myth still has a significant role in a contemporary philosophical context. They improve our understanding of the philosophical argument, ontological framework and ethics of the debate’s participants; and thus demonstrate that the information about the Prometheus myth acquired in this thesis is a useful means to reveal fundamental ideas and conceptualisations underlying contemporary (and possibly future) references to the myth.
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Gardner, Kelly. "The emergence and development of the sentient zombie : zombie monstrosity in postmodern and posthuman Gothic." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23901.
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The zombie narrative has seen an increasing trend towards the emergence of a zombie sentience. The intention of this thesis is to examine the cultural framework that has informed the contemporary figure of the zombie, with specific attention directed towards the role of the thinking, conscious or sentient zombie. This examination will include an exploration of the zombie’s folkloric origin, prior to the naming of the figure in 1819, as well as the Haitian appropriation and reproduction of the figure as a representation of Haitian identity. The destructive nature of the zombie, this thesis argues, sees itself intrinsically linked to the notion of apocalypse; however, through a consideration of Frank Kermode’s A Sense of an Ending, the second chapter of this thesis will propose that the zombie need not represent an apocalypse that brings devastation upon humanity, but rather one that functions to alter perceptions of ‘humanity’ itself. The third chapter of this thesis explores the use of the term “braaaaiiinnss” as the epitomised zombie voice in the figure’s development as an effective threat within zombie-themed videogames. The use of an epitomised zombie voice, I argue, results in the potential for the embodiment of a zombie subject. Chapter Four explores the development of this embodied zombie subject through the introduction of the Zombie Memoire narrative and examines the figure as a representation of Agamben’s Homo Sacer or ‘bare life’: though often configured as a non-sacrificial object that can be annihilated without sacrifice and consequence, the zombie, I argue, is also paradoxically inscribed in a different, Girardian economy of death that renders it as the scapegoat to the construction of a sense of the ‘human’. The final chapter of this thesis argues that both the traditional zombie and the sentient zombie function within the realm of a posthuman potentiality, one that, to varying degrees of success, attempts to progress past the restrictive binaries constructed within the overruling discourse of humanism. In conclusion, this thesis argues that while the zombie, both traditional and sentient, attempts to propose a necessary move towards a posthuman universalism, this move can only be considered if the ‘us’ of humanism embraces the potential of its own alterity.
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Pereira, Ânderson Martins. "Divergência, insurgência e convergência: uma análise da trilogia Divergente sob a luz das distopias modernas e contemporâneas." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2017. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br:8080/handle/prefix/3474.
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Na contemporaneidade, o corpo tem sido largamente discutido e industrializado. As distopias contemporâneas têm tornado mais agudas as problemáticas do corpo em suas narrativas, uma vez que o gênero distopia é extremamente arraigado à sociedade que o concebe, transpondo para a história os temores dessa coletividade de forma pungente e em narrativas que em geral se projetam para o futuro da humanidade. Estabelecida a relação direta entre distopia e sociedade, este trabalho baseia-se na concepção de Eduardo Marks de Marques, na qual existem três vertentes na constituição do gênero. A fase atual ou terceira fase distópica tem sido vigente nos últimos trinta anos e tem por característica elementar a discussão de corpos erigidos a partir de um ideal capitalista de perfeição. Sob esta perspectiva, os romances Divergente (2012), Insurgente (2013) e Convergente (2014), escritos por Veronica Roth, se apropriam de elementos distópicos de obras clássicas. Entre estes elementos pode-se listar o apagamento da história, soros para contenção e identificação social e criação de uma nova sociedade dentro de outra já estabelecida. Neste viés, pretende-se estabelecer uma comparação entre os romances da trilogia Divergente, que se enfocam na transfiguração do corpo, e alguns romances distópicos clássicos que são centradas em uma crítica às políticas sociais. A partir das conexões com estes dois momentos do gênero e também a partir de algumas utopias, este trabalho pretende verificar como elementos sociais são traduzidos na narrativa de Veronica Roth, tendo em vista a troca da problemática política para a do corpo transfigurado.
In the contemporaneity, the body has been widely discussed and industrialized. The contemporary dystopias have made more acute the issues of body in their narratives, since the genre dystopia is extremely ingrained to the society that conceives it by transposing into a story the fears of this collectivity in a pungent way and in narratives that generally project themselves to the future of humankind. Having established the direct relationship between dystopia and society, this work is based on the conception of Eduardo Marks de Marques, in which there are three strands in the constitution of the genre. The present phase or third dystopian turn has been in force for the last thirty years and has, as an elementary characteristic, the discussion of bodies erected from a capitalist ideal of perfection. In this perspective, the novels Divergent (2012), Insurgent (2013) and Convergent (2014), by Veronica Roth, update dystopian elements from classic works. Among the elements there can be enlisted the history erasing, the sera for containment and social identification and the creation of a new society within another already established. In this bias, we seek to establish a comparison between the novels of the Divergent Trilogy, which focuses on the transfiguration of the body, and some classic novels that are centered on a critique of social policies. From the connections with these two moments of the genre and also from another classic utopias, this work aims to verify how social elements are translated in the narrative of Veronica Roth, in view of the exchange of the political problematic for a transfigured body.
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Le, Gall Claire. "Fictions du posthumain : temporalité, hybridité, écriture(s)." Thesis, Brest, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BRES0064.
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L’imaginaire contemporain regorge de figurations du posthumain. Robots, intelligences artificielles, êtres génétiquement modifiés ou améliorés grâce à la science, et clones, qui trouvent leurs origines en science-fiction, foisonnent à présent dans la culture populaire mainstream. Ces entités reflètent des devenirs possibles de l’humain et provoquent à la fois enthousiasme et peur, entre la vision optimiste du dépassement des limites de l’espèce humaine (comme la vieillesse, puis la mort, ou le sexe biologique) et la perspective inquiétante de la disparition de l’humain, au profit d’un posthumain radicalement autre. Cette thèse se propose d’étudier les représentations fictionnelles du posthumain dans la littérature anglo-saxonne contemporaine, dans le corpus suivant : la trilogie MaddAddam (publiée entre 2003 et 2013) de Margaret Atwood, Never Let Me Go (2005) de Kazuo Ishiguro, Cloud Atlas (2004) de David Mitchell, Accelerando (2005) et Glasshouse (2006) de Charles Stross, et The Stone Gods (2007) de Jeanette Winterson.Mettant parfois en scène une rupture temporelle entre l’avant et l’après (dans les récits de fin du monde), les fictions du posthumain se caractérisent aussi par une forme de cyclicité (convergence du passé, du présent et du futur).Hybrides, les figurations du posthumain, à l’instar du cyborg, mêlent machinique et organique et s’incarnent dans l’entre-deux, en dépassant les dualismes qui façonnent la pensée (masculin/féminin, même/autre, nature/artifice, incarnation/désincarnation).Les écritures du posthumain, nécessairement multiples, se fondent sur l’effacement, la répétition et la réécriture, sur le modèle du palimpsestePosthuman figures are plentiful in contemporary fictional works. Robots, artificial intelligence, genetically modified or augmented beings, and clones: all find their origins in science fiction, and now abound in mainstream culture. These entities embody humanity’s possible evolutions and trigger both enthusiasm and fear. On the one hand, they offer an optimistic perspective on how current human limits could be overcome (such as old age and death, or more generally biological constraints). On the other hand, they also point out the troubling possibility of humanity’s eradication, to be replaced by radically different “posthuman” beings.This dissertation focuses on the fictional representations of the posthuman in contemporary Anglo-Saxon literature in the following novels: the MaddAddam trilogy (published between 2003 and2013) by Margaret Atwood, Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro, Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell, Accelerando (2005) and Glasshouse (2006) by Charles Stross, and The Stone Gods (2007) by Jeanette Winterson.While they are sometimes characterized by a break in temporal linearity (in postapocalyptic stories), the fictions of the posthuman are also marked by a form of cyclicity (past, present and future converge).Like the cyborg, the figures of the posthuman are hybrid and combine cybernetic or mechanical machines and biological organisms. They exist in a liminal space, and are able to go beyond the dualisms which permeate our way of thinking (male/female, same/other, natural/artificial).Writing the posthuman means considering its multiplicity, and is based on erasure, repetition and rewriting, following the model of the palimpsest
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"i: posthuman god in contemporary transhumanist literature (1982-2012)." 2015. http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291732.
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Tam, Chun Man.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.
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Botha, Tanja. "Van kubermens tot kuborg: representasies van mens-masjienverhoudinge in die Afrikaanse poesie (1990-2012)." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22688.
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In hierdie studie word die manifestasies en ontwikkelings van mens-masjien-verhoudinge in die Afrikaanse poësie vanaf 1990 tot 2012 ondersoek. Relevante uitgangspunte van die fenomenologie, posthumanisme en transhumanisme dien as teoretiese begronding om die gekompliseerde en gevarieerde aard van mens-masjien-verhoudinge in die Afrikaanse poësie te bestudeer. Die studie beoog om deur kwantitatiewe data-analise die manifestasie van tegnologiese terme en verwysings na tegnologiese objekte in Afrikaanse poësie vanaf 1990 tot 2012 te karteer. Hierbenewens word deeglike kwalitatiewe ondersoek gedoen na die verskillende representasies van mens-masjien-verhoudinge in geselekteerde Afrikaanse gedigte. Laastens word rolle en metaforiese betekenisse van digitale tegnologie in posthumane subjekte se belewing op drie tematiese vlakke ondersoek, naamlik liefde en seks, spiritualiteit en die dood.In this study the different manifestations of human-machine relationships in Afrikaans poetry between 1990 and 2012 are investigated. Relevant viewpoints from the phenomenology, posthumanism and transhumanism form part of the theoretical framework in which the often complicated and varied nature of human-machine relationships are studied. It is the goal of this study to map the manifestations of technological terms and references to technological objects in Afrikaans poetry from 1990 to 2012, utilising quantitative data analysis. Furthermore, the in-depth qualitative analysis will investigate various representations of human-machine relationships in selected Afrikaans poems. The roles and metaphorical meanings of digital technology within the experiences of posthuman subjects are investigated on three thematic levels, namely love and sex, spirituality and death.
Afrikaans and Theory of Literature
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Books on the topic "Transhumanism in literature"
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Després, Elaine. Le posthumain descend-il du singe?: Littérature évolution et cybernétique. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2020.
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Boof-Vermesse, Isabelle. L'âge des postmachines. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2020.
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Kyŏng-nan, Yi. Ek'o t'ek'ŭne sinch'e wa saengt'ae. Sŏul-si: Tosŏ Ch'ulp'an Sŏnin, 2021.
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Darmstadt, Technische Universität, ed. Die Debatte über "Human Enhancement": Historische, philosophische und ethische Aspekte der technologischen Verbesserung des Menschen. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010.
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Baelo-Allué, Sonia, and Mónica Calvo-Pascual. Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Baelo-Allué, Sonia, and Mónica Calvo-Pascual. Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Baelo-Allué, Sonia, and Mónica Calvo-Pascual. Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Critiquing Transhumanism: The Human Cost of Techno-Utopia. Public Philosophy Press, 2022.
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Critiquing Transhumanism: The Human Cost of Pursuing Techno-Utopia. Public Philosophy Press, 2022.
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Wennerscheid, Sophie. "Not in the Image of Humans: Robots as Humans’ Other in Contemporary Science Fiction Film, Literature and Art." In The Transhumanism Handbook, 557–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16920-6_37.
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MacFarlane, James Michael. "Moving Beyond Humanism: A Review of Literature." In Transhumanism as a New Social Movement, 15–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40090-3_2.
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Palardy, Diana Q. "Grafting the Global North onto the Global South: Dystopian Transhumanism in Elia Barceló’s “Mil euros por tu vida”." In The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film, 65–107. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92885-2_3.
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Streip, Katharine. "Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism." In The Beats, 187–98. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979954.003.0014.
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This essay captures more contemporary philosophical perspectives on Beat literature, specifically William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, through the application of humanist, posthumanist, and transhumanist philosophies. The essay also includes a detailed list of key philosophical resources for teaching this approach.
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Glavanakova, Alexandra. "Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online." In Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative, 48–64. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129813-3.
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Laakasuo, Michael, Jukka R. I. Sundvall, Anton Berg, Marianna Drosinou, Volo Herzon, Anton Kunnari, Mika Koverola, Marko Repo, Teemu Saikkonen, and Jussi Palomäki. "Moral Psychology and Artificial Agents (Part One)." In Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 166–88. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4894-3.ch010.
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This is the first of two chapters introducing the moral psychology of robots and transhumanism. Evolved moral cognition and the human conceptual system has naturally embedded difficulties in coping with the new moral challenges brought on by emerging future technologies. The reviewed literature outlines our contemporary understanding based on evolutionary psychology of humans as cognitive organisms. The authors then give a skeletal outline of moral psychology. These fields together suggest that there are many innate and cultural mechanisms which influence how we understand technology and have blind spots in recognizing the moral issues related to them. They discuss human tool use and cognitive categories and show how tools have shaped our evolution. The first part closes by introducing a new concept: the new ontological category (NOC i.e. robots and AI), which did not exist in our evolution. They explain how the NOC is fundamentally confounding for our moral cognitive machinery. In part two, they apply the background provided here on recent empirical studies in the moral psychology of robotics and transhumanism.
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Gidley, Jennifer M. "4. Crystal balls, flying cars, and robots." In The Future: A Very Short Introduction, 82–99. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198735281.003.0005.
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In spite of the substantial body of futures literature with its conceptual and methodological innovation and engagement with real world issues, misconceptions abound in academic, professional, and policy circles. The term ‘future’ is increasingly used in these circles without reference to the published futures studies material. ‘Crystal balls, flying cars, and robots’ considers general misunderstandings and the trivialization of futures research by the media. Futurists are not crystal ball gazers; they are not all involved in high-technology, flying machines, space-technology, and science fiction; and future studies is not dominantly involved with robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence. The concepts of transhumanism, posthumanism, and dehumanization are also discussed.
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de Prada, Juan Manuel. "TRANSHUMANISMO Y LITERATURA." In ¿Transhumanismo o posthumanidad?, 113–24. Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10rrcg3.11.
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Dürr, Oliver. "Literatur." In Transhumanismus – Traum oder Alptraum?, 194–208. Verlag Herder GmbH, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783451837524-194.
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Kudyba, Wojciech. "Posthumanizm Szymborskiej potknął się o kamień." In Kwartalnik Nowy Napis #20. Instytut Literatury, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55159/nn.23.
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Posthumanizm, transhumanizm, animal studies – wystarczy rzut oka na najnowsze nurty w literaturoznawstwie, by się zorientować, jak wiele inspiracji dostarczają dziś badaczom literatury pięknej te nurty myślenia (i działania), które próbują na nowo zdefiniować miejsce człowieka w świecie dzięki osłabieniu, a w niektórych ujęciach nawet dzięki zniesieniu opozycji pomiędzy naturą i kulturą lub – szerzej – pomiędzy tym, co ludzkie, i tym, co nie-ludzkie. Posthumaniści podkreślają bowiem, że racjonalistyczny koncept natury – czyli nie-ludzkich form życia i tak zwanej przyrody nieożywionej – był pewną totalizującą całością, pozostającą na usługach historycznie zmiennych ideologii i w związku z tym wymaga radykalnej dekonstrukcji. Nie chodzi ich zdaniem o to, by tak rozumianą naturę chronić, ale o to, by ją inaczej rozumieć: by ją mentalnie „uspołecznić”, to znaczy traktować ją jako część tego, co ludzkie.