Posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence and Ishiguro's Klara & the Sun: Can Humanoid Machines attain consciousness?
Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture October 6, 2024 Khaled Alkodimi
This paper examines Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and The Sun through the lens of posthumanism. It uses the textual analysis method to analyze Ishiguro's text as a posthuman novel that depicts the posthuman society where the boundaries between what is human and the nonhuman is blurred. The basic argument is that the aim of Ishiguro's text is two-fold, while it clearly illustrates the inability of the...