Jennifer Haley’s The Nether
Transhumanism in the Post-Internet World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yasser Fouad Selim (Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 300-316 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-2022-002 |
| OpenAlex | W4220794989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The Nether is a science fiction play written by American playwright Jennifer Haley. The play dramatizes a techno-futuristic image of life as humans become increasingly immersed in the virtual world after the Internet transforms into a technologically advanced sphere called the Nether. This article proposes that The Nether confuses what it means to be real in a world obsessed with digitization and contributes to the transhumanist discourse regarding the ethical and moral ramifications of transcending the human condition in a post-Internet environment. The article also investigates Haley’s utilization of realistic virtuality to perform the transhuman on stage
Art · Art history · Digitization · Epistemology · Sociology · The Internet · Transhumanism · Virtuality (gaming · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |