A Human-Machine Community via Transgression:Focusing on Machines Like Me
In Machines Like Me,The digital life represented by Adam and the natural life represent-ed by Charlie cross the threshold of"human and technology"to become an indistinguishable cyber-life since they follow the same laws of existence. The events such as"Charlie reaching out to turn off Adam' s power"illustrate a significant separation between humans and robots in view of bio-politics. The sover-eign power possessed by Charlie and the bare life carried by Adam construct two opposites of bio-poli-tics which inevitably lead to the politics of death. Adam's"suicide,"on the other hand,breaks up the par-adox of bio-politics on the issue of life and death,thus realizing the depoliticization of life. The crossing of the threshold implies the generation of a new existence. The author Ian McEwan uses the coexistence and communion as a metaphor for the new possibility of potential and ubiquitous human-machine com-munity to imagine the cyber future.
Machines Like Menatural lifedigital lifebio-politicshuman-machine community
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