popularculture – Posthuman Aesthetics

Thinking Like a Replicant

In the movie Blade Runner from 1982 a special interrogating technic is employed to determine whether someone is a human

The children’s novel The Wind in the Willows from 1908 by Kenneth Grahame does not seem like a very obvious

In the Belgian cartoonist Hergés Tintin in the Congo (1931) Tintin is a reporter sent to the Belgian colony Congo to

True Blood draws from the gothic genre to reflect on various social problems. The series brings the ancient figure of the

In this still from the movie The Name of the Rose Sean Connery holds up to his eyes a couple

In the comic book Watchmen a character is asked, what he feels about the death of a close friend. The

In the Japanese post-apocalyptic animation series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) set in futuristic Tokyo, humanity is systematically attacked by an

Despite Herbrechter’s negation of “transcendence” (2013:3), the film Transcendence could still be an example of the posthuman concept. As a

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