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 co¬existence 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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