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Title TOWARDS POSTHUMANISM: STIGMATIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION

Author(s) Zenab Jehangir

Abstract Posthumanism has become one of the foremost important themes in science fiction (SF). Contemporary American SF is its significant popularizer in the modern world. The advocacy of dystopian future in contemporary American SF has led to stigmatization of artificial intelligence (AI). It has presented AI as a threat to humanity and has reduced it to mere enemy of humanity in a posthuman future. Unlike postmodernism, posthumanism is a neo-foundationalist theory and grounds human subjectivity in dystopian future. The cyberpunk culture of SF is a vital element in the ostracism of AI because most of it centers round AI takeover where humans are presented with the dilemma of extinction in the face of new technologically advanced world. The researcher has used Goffman’s theory of stigmatization as theoretical basis, with special emphasis on Link and Phelan’s stigmatization model, to build the argument. The analysis has been done through textual analysis as a research method. This research has yielded the possible stigmatization of AI in contemporary American SF and its ethical and societal impacts. It is likely to be a significant part of the production of knowledge in the field of Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk fiction.

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Language English

Publication Date 2020-01-09

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