https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.9280
Aglaya’s Apocryph, a techno-thriller by Jerzy Sosnowski, is more than a postmodern intertextual palimpsest openly flirting with kitsch, fraught with references to, among others, Stanisław Lem. It is, above all, a story of transgressions of identity by simulating relations with a gynoid. The ostensible feminist elements and cultural clichés matter far less than the posthumanist perspective. The psychological experiment deploying a female cyborg tasked with seducing a young pianist results in personality disintegration both for the ignorant victim and the robot’s navigator. Irena uses the avatar to feel the initially fascinating immersion, while Krzysztof can realize his amatory phantasms. The novel reflects on the process and results of crossing human borders with the aid of technology: combining the human with the inhuman.
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No. 42 (2021)
Published: 2021-09-19
10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski