Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37207

The Transhuman Project of Human Being in the Works of Houellebecq and Baudrillard

Vesna Maričić orcid.org/0000-0002-7359-4802 ; Džordža Vašingtona 30, RS–11000 Beograd

Abstract

This paper discusses the question about the possibility of coexistence of human beings, animals and cyborgs. The first part of research inquires about wild, animalistic human nature Michel Houellebecq talks about in his work Elementary Particles with a specific focus on Baudrillard’s theory of world as flawed crime. The second part inquires about the idea of human being as transhuman being. I intend to lay out several hypotheses on contemporary tendencies in art and other practices involved in dealing with the future human as cyborg.

Keywords

human being; existence; transhumanism; cyborg

Hrčak ID:

188021

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/188021

Publication date:

23.8.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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