Science Fiction Literature as a Prospective Visualization of the Forthcoming Posthuman World | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب و العلوم الإنسانية جامعة قناة السويس | ||
| Volume 7, Issue 51, October 2024, Pages 253-281 PDF (253.22 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfhsc.2024.421957 | ||
| Author | ||
| Rania Mohamed Abdel Latif Othman* | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Science fiction (SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Since this genre explores themes of technological advancement and its implications for human identity, it becomes a source of inspiration for posthumanism, the literary movement that considers how technology and science are changing humanity. Through stories about cyborgs, robots, and artificially intelligent systems, authors present visions of a world where humans no longer occupy their traditional roles in society as they merge with machines or are replaced by them altogether. Posthumanists take these ideas further to explore the ethical implications of such advancements while also considering what it means to be human in an ever-changing landscape, wherein our world has become a science-fictional environment. Since around the last decade of the 19th century, biological and even genetic science fiction literature has existed; however, it can be said that with the dawn of the 21st century, the genetic becomes not just a theme in SF but more of a cultural creation that ascertains itself in ordinary culture. Consequently, posthumanism reigns as the dominant worldview; thus, the proliferation of conferences, research projects, and contemplations on the topic attests to the growing interest in it. As a result, the term posthuman emerges as a central hypothesis in modern scholarly discourse as a means of addressing the pressing need for a comprehensive rethinking of the authentic nature of humanity. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Human identity; Posthumanism; Robots; Science fiction | ||
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