Through a simultaneous comprehension of Michel Houellebecq’s novel La Possibilité d’une île (2005) and Juan Eduardo de Urraza’s novel La Sociedad de las mentes (2001), this article attempts to demonstrate that the novelistic representation of the post-human, which is built in a strong relationship with new technologies, is invariably linked to an ontological reflection on the nature of beings, which can define their essence only beyond the limits of traditional humanity. After having been characterized as agents who, by their neo-technological configurations, dominate a collapsed humanity, the post-human protagonists are analyzed through their response to the question of existential dissatisfaction, while facing their problematic subjectivi...
The novels of contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq are notorious for their critique of late...
L’imaginaire contemporain regorge de figurations du posthumain. Robots, intelligences artificielles,...
This interdisciplinary study analyzes the work of two contemporary writers in Peninsular Spanish lit...
"In La possibilité d’une île , Houellebecq describes the fall of humanity and the emergence of a soc...
A study of the representations of a resistant humanity in futuristic novels in contemporary French a...
International audienceWhile transhumanism refers to the alteration of human beings through technolog...
The recent and intense shift of academic interest towards the posthuman has mainly occurred in the f...
This thesis examines the work of four contemporary French novelists—Antoine Volodine, Jean-Christoph...
Contemporary fiction tends to represent the evolution of the human race, both in literature and the ...
Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novel...
Parution de l'ouvrage collectif dirigé par Artur Matos Alves, Unveiling the Posthuman, sous forme de...
International audienceWhile transhumanism refers to the alteration of human beings through technolog...
International audienceMichel Houellebecq's two novels -'Elementary Particles' and 'The Possibility o...
The novels of contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq are notorious for their critique of late...
Le colloque s’intéressera au contexte dans lequel l’idéologie transhumaniste est née et à son impact...
The novels of contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq are notorious for their critique of late...
L’imaginaire contemporain regorge de figurations du posthumain. Robots, intelligences artificielles,...
This interdisciplinary study analyzes the work of two contemporary writers in Peninsular Spanish lit...
"In La possibilité d’une île , Houellebecq describes the fall of humanity and the emergence of a soc...
A study of the representations of a resistant humanity in futuristic novels in contemporary French a...
International audienceWhile transhumanism refers to the alteration of human beings through technolog...
The recent and intense shift of academic interest towards the posthuman has mainly occurred in the f...
This thesis examines the work of four contemporary French novelists—Antoine Volodine, Jean-Christoph...
Contemporary fiction tends to represent the evolution of the human race, both in literature and the ...
Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novel...
Parution de l'ouvrage collectif dirigé par Artur Matos Alves, Unveiling the Posthuman, sous forme de...
International audienceWhile transhumanism refers to the alteration of human beings through technolog...
International audienceMichel Houellebecq's two novels -'Elementary Particles' and 'The Possibility o...
The novels of contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq are notorious for their critique of late...
Le colloque s’intéressera au contexte dans lequel l’idéologie transhumaniste est née et à son impact...
The novels of contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq are notorious for their critique of late...
L’imaginaire contemporain regorge de figurations du posthumain. Robots, intelligences artificielles,...
This interdisciplinary study analyzes the work of two contemporary writers in Peninsular Spanish lit...