Abstract

GARCIA, Aitana Martos  and  GARCIA, Alberto E. Martos. Imaginaries and Fictions of Death in Postmodernity. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2018, n.115, pp.5-28. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.6941.

This essay analyses the exchange and lability between the fictional representations of death in the context of a postmodern culture, where an artificial intelligence and other cultural and scientific currents have remodelled basic notions such as ideas of spirit or death. Post-humanism assumes a new horizon by emphasising the new relationships between people, animals and machines and is preceded by the visions of trans-humanism, which implies an inversion of traditional world views about the body and death. The hypothesis of the present work is the techno-scientific imaginaries, through futurist fiction in particular, have remodelled the idea of death that goes from being a fatum to an anomaly or mechanism that can be corrected with science. We can conclude that many of the utopias recreated in the imaginaries are techno-utopias typical of post-modernity, and in that aspect, these post-modern representations of death continue to have meaning as an expression of a millenarianism and a collective catharsis that reconcile the rational and irrational dimension

Keywords : artificial intelligence; imaginary death; posthumanism; postmodernity.

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