Beyond the Human: Transhumanist Negotiations and Posthuman Instantiations in Aldoux Huxley's Brave New World and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.
My paper tries to bridge the gap between transhumanist realities of now and posthuman potentialities of a then not so distant anymore, taking into account both the theoretical background proposed by critics and the literary modes of embodiment meant to encapsulate the tension inherent in the collabo...
| Published in: | Caietele Echinox Vol. 34; pp. 255 - 275 |
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Echinox Cultural Foundation
2018
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