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Tag: Utopia

Mind-reading Utopia

Mind-reading Utopia

November 22, 2016 Mads Søndergaard Assignment 6 Leave a comment

Mind-reading, or mind-decrypting, is a prominent feature in many post-human scenarios, particularly the more science-fiction heavy postulates. From the symbols

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Man’s superiority challenged – the second fall of man?

Man’s superiority challenged – the second fall of man?

October 17, 2016 Lars Juul-Madsen Assignment 2 One comment

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Coming Race” tells the story of a wealthy traveler who by accident ends in a subterranean world

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Humans, the ‘Other’ and Post-Human Ideas in The Coming Race

October 16, 2016 Lara Eva Sochor Assignment 2 One comment

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s narrator in The Coming Race (1871) comes into contact with another highly developed species of humanoids calling themselves

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Towards the Other - Posthuman Utopia?

Towards the Other – Posthuman Utopia?

October 16, 2016 Jelica Veljovic Assignment 2 Leave a comment

Fiction has always offered us a playfull ground for revisiting our civilization, and also for testing its possibilities, its directions

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A vision of collective enlightenment

A vision of collective enlightenment

October 14, 2016 Maja Tingberg Kruse Assignment 2 5 comments

One of the most posthuman characteristics about the Ana-race, and the one I will focus on in this essay, is

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Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?

Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?

October 6, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 1 3 comments

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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