“God is a cluster of neurons”: Neo-posthumanism, theocide, theogony and anti-myths of origin in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
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https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v18i35.32945Keywords:
transhumanism, posthumanism, dystopias, dystopian body, Oryx and CrakeAbstract
This paper aims to problematise the recent resurgence of literary dystopian narratives in Anglophone literatures, suggesting that such narratives must be read through a perspective that considers the centrality of the dystopian body as a transhuman entity. From the arguments raised by the discussions of transhumanism and posthumanism, the impact of scientific development in the construction of desire, and of the role of theological thought in postmodernity, the goal is to discuss how these ideas appear and are presented in Canadian novelist Margaret Atwoord’s Oryx and Crake.
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