Multi-digital data-layered inquiries on humans and non-humans in Philip K. Dick’s Do androids dream of electric sheep? and Max Barry’s Machine man

Abstract

The present study has investigated the inquiries over the interconnection of the movement known as transhumanism, whose starting point involves the human being and the mechanical body in the literary space. As per the dystopic narrative of Philip Kindred Dick, there has been an approach of the non-human figure of the android and the interference of its construto under the human being perspective. As a means to change the journey of the Homo sapiens in relation to the exponential technology, Max Barry also addresses the transhumanist vision, which takes into account projects of immortality and posthumanism, bearing in mind the cyborg. Apropos of the techno-scientific advances, the novels of both authors open up an inventory of possibilities vis-à-vis the unfolding of the human species in contemporary times.