Published: 2022-12-30

Ksenogeneza albo "stawanie się Innym” – w stronę posthumanistycznej wizji społeczeństwa przyszłości

Krzysztof Loska Logo ORCID
Section: varia - follow-ups and anticipations
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.11612

(A research article in Polish/ Artykuł w języku polskim)

Abstract

Xenogenesis or "Becoming-Other": Towards a Posthuman Vision of the Future Society

Starting from the assumption that science fiction is one of the tools of speculative thinking, that is, it allows one to undertake critical reflection on the consequences of human activity, the author of the article considers the possibility of working out an alternative path for the development of mankind, which was outlined by Octavia E. Butler in the Xenogenesis trilogy. The American writer imagines a future in which the differences
between nature and culture, human and natural world have been eliminated. However, she does not propose an escapist fantasy, but formulates a political statement about the problems we have to face if we want to survive as a species. At the same time, she draws attention to the conditions necessary for the emergence of a new community, not based on hierarchical (racial, gender, ethnic, economic) subordination, but on relational ethics,shaped by the change that will take place in people in the process of “becoming the Other.”

Citation rules

Loska, K. (2022). Ksenogeneza albo "stawanie się Innym” – w stronę posthumanistycznej wizji społeczeństwa przyszłości: (A research article in Polish/ Artykuł w języku polskim). Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (45), 213–230. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.11612

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Er(r)go 45 (2/2022)

No. 45 (2022)
Published: 2023-01-03


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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