Prehumanism In Rosi Braidotti's 'Posthuman1'

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Introduction
What is posthumanism? As the name might imply the concept of posthumanism is essentially the next step, so to speak, in the human nature. A transcendence, of shorts, of mankind. This could take various forms, be it from feasible and current ways such as genetically engineered food, prosthetics due to injury to far-off and futuristic concepts such as cyborg technologies (prosthetics for the purpose of body or mind enhancement rather than appliance to amputees), digital preservation of our conscience (even after death) and even the achievement of parapsychology concepts such as telekinesis, mind reading etc.
The concept has been further discussed and explored by Italo-Australian philosopher and feminist scholar Rosi Braidotti in her, aptly named, book The Posthuman1, in which she states that despite the set term of conservative and oftentimes religious societies of what human and humanity is we have in fact achieved the deconstruction of that with the help of technology and progress made in society as well as the passage of various periods in post-history. Braidotti calls herself an “anti-humanist” and mainly tackles feminist concepts such as the crumbling of gender roles, …show more content…

This element of posthumanism is represented as a hostile entity set to bring harm to the cause of our protagonists, rather than being an evolution of a human being or an improvement of the human nature. Indeed, as stated by Elaine L. Graham in her book Representations of the post/human: Monsters, aliens, and others in popular culture2, it is in fact a symbolism for the dehumanization process that is brought by the tyrannical regime of Metropolis as they treat the lower class and the workers that keep Metropolis moving in the contrasting underground, as less than human or even nothing like human at all. In the beginning we can see the workers stacked up and moving in a stiff manner not unlike a robot following

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