Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man
The aim of this paper is to analyse the 1999 film version of Isaac Asimov<s iThe Bicentennial Manj (1976), a film that reflects the changing status of the dichotomy human/non-human in our culture. The idea of blurring the human body boundaries has become one of the most repeated and successful su...
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| description | The aim of this paper is to analyse the 1999 film version of Isaac Asimov<s
iThe Bicentennial Manj (1976), a film that reflects the changing status of the
dichotomy human/non-human in our culture. The idea of blurring the human
body boundaries has become one of the most repeated and successful subject
matters of the science-fiction genre, a subject especially attractive in a time
that some critics have defined as ipost-humanj. Starting from Norbert Wiener
theories we will see different approaches to the idea of the cyborg and the
ipost-humanj, which will help us to understand the changing relationship
between machine, robot and cyborg in Bicentennial Man (1999). We will
analyse in which ways the film answers the question: what does it mean to be
human in a posthuman world? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-97bea87e123140109761733bd96a05112022-12-21T23:42:41ZengUniversidad de AlmeriaOdisea1578-38202174-16112017-02-0104173010.25115/odisea.v0i4.2321Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial ManSonia Baelo Allué0Universidad de ZaragozaThe aim of this paper is to analyse the 1999 film version of Isaac Asimov<s iThe Bicentennial Manj (1976), a film that reflects the changing status of the dichotomy human/non-human in our culture. The idea of blurring the human body boundaries has become one of the most repeated and successful subject matters of the science-fiction genre, a subject especially attractive in a time that some critics have defined as ipost-humanj. Starting from Norbert Wiener theories we will see different approaches to the idea of the cyborg and the ipost-humanj, which will help us to understand the changing relationship between machine, robot and cyborg in Bicentennial Man (1999). We will analyse in which ways the film answers the question: what does it mean to be human in a posthuman world?http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ODISEA/article/view/23 |
| spellingShingle | Sonia Baelo Allué Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man Odisea |
| title | Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man |
| title_full | Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man |
| title_fullStr | Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man |
| title_short | Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man |
| title_sort | blurring posthuman identities the new version of humanity offered by bicentennial man |
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