L'Imaginaire Posthumain dans les romans de Maurice G. Dantec
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Since the earliest periods of history, one of the reasons for humanity’s fascination with machines has been the desire to liberate itself from the flow of time, the realities of human finitude, and death, thereby reconstructing reality according to its imagination. Thus, imagination begins to take shape within this phenomenon. Indeed, the effort to transcend human conditions through various mediations conceals the struggle to suppress fears concerning the end of humanity and human existence. This is also a quest for freedom from imposed conditions, as anything becomes possible through imagination. Such an attitude, referencing a futurist tradition, offers an alternative way to suppress the fear of the “end.” Moving from the modern periods, when technology began to shape our lives, to today’s postmodern conditions, we increasingly witness humanity’s attempts to make sense of its uncertain future with the help of technology. This assumption finds validity in literary and artistic works produced in this direction.
In this study, we aim to analyze the uniqueness of the perspective that examines the relationship between humans and technology in line with the posthuman concept, focusing on selected novels by Maurice Dantec. Using "posthuman" as a key term, we will evaluate how technological elements in Dantec’s novels are transformed through Gilbert Durand’s method of image analysis. Furthermore, we aim to explore how 21st-century humanity externalizes its repressed desires, wishes, or fears on a literary level through themes, genres, and forms in its interaction with technology.
