Beyond body and gravity
Hybridity and technology in S.B. Divya’s Machinehood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7837996 |
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| Authors | Adil Hussain (0000-0002-7738-8328, University of Kashmir, corresponding author), Azra Akhtar (University of Kashmir), Khursheed Ahmad Qazi (0009-0001-7428-1787, University of Kashmir) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 367-377 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2024.2364631 |
| OpenAlex | W4399513957 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Donna Haraway views being a cyborg rather than a 'goddess' desirable. This feminist slogan can be seen in terms of the democratising power of a hybrid identity facilitated by technology as a substantial alternative to traditional notions of gendered identity. This paper aims to study S. B. Divya's 2021 novel Machinehood to analyse how technology and identity are tied up in the context of the novel. The paper benefits from the insights from critical posthumanism by analysing how the transformation into a cyborg is problematised by the moral and ethical overtones facilitated by dakinis (mythological figures in Buddhism). While providing tactical advantage, cyborg may become the negation of one's gender and flesh. The cyborg has been viewed as a capitalist desire. Thus, a cyborg society benefits from the transformative acts that resist such erasure and preserve one's sense of identity rooted in their body
Aesthetics · Buddhism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Hybridity · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Posthumanism · Power (physics · Slogan · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Highly cited | No |
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