“Nor, on the other hand, do you seem to belong to any civilised people“, (Pos. 345) says one of the
Pre-Post-Human
In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), we are presented our narrator, an unnamed traveller, who, after a descent into
Towards the Other – Posthuman Utopia?
Fiction has always offered us a playfull ground for revisiting our civilization, and also for testing its possibilities, its directions
Prosthesis and the Body
This novel’s opening was fascinating and yet all too familiar. The story of an explorer finding an advanced race underground
An inorganic future
The title “The Coming Race” is a surprisingly paradoxical title. At one point it conveys the narrative’s interest in the
The Coming of the Future of Humanity
(Bostrom, 2009, p. 20) Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (1871), is set in an Utopian underground world discovered by a
Fear Not the Machine, Fear the Human
It seems that when it comes to techno-apocalypse, the pendulum of the human imagination is swinging further and further to
Down the hole up the ladder
The protagonist in Edward Bulwer-Lutton’s “The Coming Race” ends up in an utopian parallel univers underneath the surface of the
A vision of collective enlightenment
One of the most posthuman characteristics about the Ana-race, and the one I will focus on in this essay, is
One man’s utopia….
As Laura Søvsø Thomasen points out it in her video lecture, Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Butler, H.G. Wells and others, were writing