Tecnomorfose humana: novas representações do humano na ficção científica no século XXI

Abstract

Due to the technological progress, humankind has become more and more dependent on technological gadgets. The intimate relation with technological artefacts leads to a desire to merge flesh and cybernetics aiming at reshaping the human body so that it becomes much more than an organic and perishable vessel of human subjectivities. With the growth of the information networks and the process of virtualization of the world it also grows a desire to transcend the limitations of being trapped to a physical body --- in the context of information networks, devoid of the animal aspect of the human, we get the sensation that we can be anywhere, anytime and for as long as we please. Thus, new configurations of human rise from an approaching technological landslide that promises to drastically change the concepts we have of our own species. The goal of this work is to analyze science fiction works produced in the 21st century that approach the impact of science and technology on the human body in order to think of which representations of human the speculative fiction has produced. The work also tries to use science fiction to speculate on the place of homo sapiens in a future of great technological leaps in short time intervals.