The unbearable lightness of being : a posthumanist reading to Scott Westerfeld's specials

Abstract EN

In a biotechnological age marked with the excessive use of biomedical advances and a state of immense will for transcendence, one's imagination is stimulated toward envisioning the possibility of attaining the full abilities of the human mind and otherworldliness.

such augmentation may rather rob the human individual identity, affecting his stability likewise his self-recognition vis a vis his perception of the hegemonically standard world.

Scott Westerfeld's specials disseminates the culture of the technological posthuman entanglement and the coming of inexorable future for the human, built around the popularity of the contemporary infliction of cosmetic surgery.

therefore, this article is interested mainly in exploring the intervene of the biotechnological advancement in the vehement formation of cyborg identity, and the implications of body modifications on altering the venue of human cognition leading eventually to his disorientation.