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

这个项目的目的是调查在当代科幻电影和电视中，技术是如何被“人性”的想法所铭刻的（Wood, 2002）。它将通过不同的体现模式，从无形到有形，探索人类对技术的这种铭文。后人类主义，虽然是一个有争议的术语，但可以被广泛地认为是对人类意义的重新思考，特别是进化，生态和技术进步影响人文主义启蒙定义的方式（Wolfe, 2010）。科幻小说经常通过人工智能、半机械人和全息图的叙述来设想人类流离失所的后人类未来。这些技术已经在两大论点下进行了讨论。首先，“人性”的概念，如性别和社区，被铭刻在技术上，使其更容易理解和管理。这使得技术“安全”，并保持完整的人性的概念范畴（Wood, 2002）。第二，带有人性的技术主题打开并质疑了在后人文主义时尚中人类的定义（Herbrechter, 2013）。我的介入将表明，在当代科幻电影和电视中，这两种相互冲突的方法是同时进行协商的。我假设，作为人类的定义在同一文本中同时受到支持和挑战，并将通过密切的文本分析和后人文主义的框架来阐明这种冲突。

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.