“The ultimate horror for the individual is to remain trapped “inside” a world constructed by another being for the other’s own profit” (Hayles 162). This quote from chapter seven of Hayle’s book is a horror that many characters (thought in different ways have had to grapple with in the literature and movies we have examined thus far in class. In this post I will examine three selections that have characters who are stuck on the “inside.” Continue reading
While reading Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, I felt that one of the major questions the reader is being asked to ponder is if clones (from what we’ve read so far I’m assuming that’s what the “donors” and “carers” are) are still human? Continue reading
In Representations of the Post/Human, Elaine L. Graham explains her use of the term “post/human” instead of simply “post-human” on page 11: “…I hope to suggest a questioning both of inevitability of a successor species…” Is it truly unavoidable that there will be a successor species? This is the question I’d like to explore in this post. Continue reading