Logics of the posthuman imaginary and the cultural production of youth reception

Abstract

It is a fact that the technological revolution from recent times has potentially provoked unprecedented mutations in all domains of human life. These operated transformations deeply affect social, cultural and anthropological conditions; new subjectivities are generated and intelligence technologies become more capable to shelter them, in the context of adaptable communities. These are challenges that have motivated the search of paths towards a comprehension of complexities evoked by this new context. In the narrow dialogue with this reality, representations are projected, foremost in the arts. The literary and cultural productions focused on the youth reception reveal themselves as privileged territory for manifestations of an imaginary that allies itself to representations of a stage that has been called post-human. In narratives which shelter this fictional universe, robots and unnumbered techno-mechanical devices proliferate, along with protagonists that increasingly derive from and populate digital environments. Such manifestations of the imaginary, notably, provoke reflections about the lived reality. In that sense, we will seek to take census,  in literary and cultural productions addressed to the youth audience, of some figures of this post-human universe.