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Becoming Human/Posthuman: The Spatial Transformation in Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential
By Chia-ching Lin.
Published by The International Journal of the Humanities
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| Article: Electronic | $US5.00 |
This paper tries to explore how and what human/posthuman react to the spatial transformation in Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential. Ayckbourn presents a future world where everything is dependent on machine. Machine helps human with every triviality in life; it accomplishes human’s job and even replace it. Taking the robot, Jacie, as an example, this play describes how she reacts to a place and how the spatial transformation affects her. In this play, android is functioned for the production of the entertainment industry. Jacie is treated as a laborer. However, during the contact with human beings and different space, Jacie develops a partially human nature making her an autonomous and sentient subject. Jacie’s transformation involves the change of space, from a mechanic, robotic and human-controlled space to the outside world filled with the “real” human social activities. The movement is concerned about floating and shifting of space as well as of value. Therefore, I’d like to discuss the transformation of human/posthuman during the shift of space and the impact including economic and cultural aspects: from human to posthuman and back.
| Keywords: | Space, Alan Ayckbourn, Cyborg, Posthuman, Comic Potential |
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International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 7, Issue 6, pp.35-44. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.201MB).
Chia-ching Lin
Lecturer, General Education Committee, Yu Da University, Miaoli County, Taiwan