Abstract

CUADROS CONTRERAS, Raúl. Reflexiones sobre alteridad y técnica: la figura del robot humanoide en algunas transposiciones de la literatura al cine. CS [online]. 2008, n.2, pp.247-264. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i2.420.

Science fiction shows the most extreme forms of otherness that can be imagined. Those other beings and other worlds open the door to new ontologies and to the de-naturalization of opposed categories like organic/inorganic, natural/artificial. As a result we obtain new ways of thinking about identity and the definition of human being. This article explores this process by analyzing representations of technical advancement and its mediation between identity and alteration in some stories of this genre. With this in mind, the author takes the figure of the robot or cyborg as an example, as it appears in recent films, which show how it becomes humanized.

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