REIMAGINING HUMANITY: POSTHUMAN REPRESENTATIONS IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Abstract

Posthumanism is a critical theory that examines how advances in
technology, biology, and artificial intelligence challenge traditional concepts of
what it means to be human. In recent decades, literature and film have portrayed
posthuman figures such as androids, cyborgs, artificial intelligences, and
genetically modified humans, while questioning human identity, consciousness,
embodiment, and moral responsibility. This paper explores posthumanism in works
like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Neuromancer, Ex Machina, and Ghost
in the Shell, highlighting blurred human–machine boundaries, unstable identity, and
technology-driven ethical dilemmas