Screening posthumanism: humanness, embodiment and artificial people in 21st century science-fiction film and television.

这个项目旨在调查，在当代科幻电影和电视中，技术是如何被刻上“人性”的概念的(Wood，2002)。它将通过从无形到无形的不同体现模式来探索人类对技术的铭文。后人主义虽然是一个有争议的术语，但可以广泛地认为是对作为人意味着什么的重新思考，具体地说，是对进化、生态和技术进步影响启蒙运动对人文主义定义的影响(Wolfe，2010)。科幻小说经常通过人工智能、半机械人和全息图的叙事来展望人类流离失所的未来。这些技术已经在两条主要的论点下进行了讨论。首先，“人性”的概念，如性别和社区，被刻画在技术上，使其更容易理解和管理。这使得技术变得“安全”，并保持了人性的概念范畴(Wood，2002)。第二点是，以人性为题材的技术主题开启了人类在死后意味着什么的定义，并使之成为问题(Herbrechter，2013)。我的干预将表明，这两种相互冲突的方法在当代科幻电影和电视中同时进行了谈判。我假设，对人的意义的定义在单一的文本中同时得到支持和挑战，并将通过密切的文本分析和死后主义的框架来阐明这一冲突。

This project aims to investigate how, within contemporary science-fiction film and television,technologies come to be inscribed with ideas of 'humanness' (Wood, 2002). It will explore this inscriptionof the human onto the technological through varying modes of embodiment, from the intangible to thetangible. Posthumanism, although a contested term, can broadly be thought of as a rethinking of what itmeans to be human, specifically, the ways evolutionary, ecological and technological advancementsaffect Enlightenment definitions of humanism (Wolfe, 2010). Science-fiction regularly envisionsposthuman futures of human displacement through narratives of AI, cyborgs and holograms. Thesetechnologies have been discussed under two broad lines of argument. The first is that concepts of'humanness', such as gender and community, are inscribed onto technology to make it moreunderstandable and manageable. This renders technology 'safe' and keeps intact the conceptualcategories of humanness (Wood, 2002). The second is that technological subjects inscribed withhumanness open up and problematise the very definitions of what it means to be human in posthumanistfashion (Herbrechter, 2013). My intervention will show that these two conflicting approaches arenegotiated simultaneously within contemporary science-fiction film and television. I hypothesise thatdefinitions of what it means to be human are simultaneously upheld and challenged within a single text,and will elucidate this conflict through close textual analysis and the framework of posthumanism.