In the movie Blade Runner from 1982 a special interrogating technic is employed to determine whether someone is a human
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The Wind of Change
The children’s novel The Wind in the Willows from 1908 by Kenneth Grahame does not seem like a very obvious
An exclusionary humanity
In the Belgian cartoonist Hergés Tintin in the Congo (1931) Tintin is a reporter sent to the Belgian colony Congo to
“We pay taxes, we deserve basic civil rights” – The human/vampire division in True Blood
True Blood draws from the gothic genre to reflect on various social problems. The series brings the ancient figure of the
HOW-TO PERFECT INSTAGRAM
“Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures.” is Instagram’s
A rebellion against the enhanced human
In popular culture and on social media there is a growing tendency to focus on the imperfect. This is in
Glasses from hell
In this still from the movie The Name of the Rose Sean Connery holds up to his eyes a couple
Why should the superman care?
In the comic book Watchmen a character is asked, what he feels about the death of a close friend. The
THE FRAGILE HERO: UNDERMINING THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC IDEOLOGY
In the Japanese post-apocalyptic animation series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) set in futuristic Tokyo, humanity is systematically attacked by an
Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?
Despite Herbrechter’s negation of “transcendence” (2013:3), the film Transcendence could still be an example of the posthuman concept. As a