Traumatic Techno-Ideology in Contemporary US Fiction and Film: The Limits of the Human in the Posthuman Era

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  • Francisco Collado Rodríguez University of Zaragoza

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.16.3939

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posthuman, cyberpunk, trauma, M. McLuhan, N. Wiener

Abstract

This essay analyzes the fragmentation and instability of being as a reiterative topic in criticism and art representation for the last sixty years. Then, it traces the notions of the cyborg and the posthuman, together with their implications for teaching methods and learning processes. The ultimate didactic aim is to analyze a selected corpus of written and visual fiction that deals with the instability issue to induce the students’ awareness of their own posthuman condition in their dual role as self-conscious beings but also as learners.

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Francisco Collado Rodríguez, University of Zaragoza

University Professor Department of English and German Studies

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Collado Rodríguez, F. (2014). Traumatic Techno-Ideology in Contemporary US Fiction and Film: The Limits of the Human in the Posthuman Era. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics, 16, 171–186. https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.16.3939
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Vol. 16 (2011): WRITTEN COMMUNICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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