![]() It is merely his behavior which makes it clear that he is not entirely human. Equipped with all the superficial qualities of a human, like sweat glands, tear canals, other bodily liquids, along with life-like human skin, hair and all other body parts, Adam cannot be taken for a machine at first glance. Ian McEwan, the writer of the novel Machines Like Me, asks posthumanist questions regarding the dilemma of how to differentiate between the human and the machine.įor the purpose of this text, posthumanism is to be understood in two ways: the first point is about the literal “post” to humanity, as that which comes “after” humanity, given that Adam, the android in the novel, becomes more and more human-like. However, if we think the body as a machine in a Cartesian sense (the body as a thing to be controlled by the mind) then the only real difference left is the corporeality of the machine versus that of the human. The machine is seen as cold, dead, industrial and controlled, while the human enjoys being alive and free. Traditionally, the human body and the machine are perceived in completely different ways. ![]()
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