The Representation of Fukuyama’s Pathways to a Posthuman Future inBrave New WorldandNever Let Me Go

Simulation and Simulacra in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: A Baudrillardian Appraisal

“…This whole Brave New World saga vividly goes in conformity with Jean Baudrillard's theory of "Simulacra and Simulations" where Baudrillard (1988) elaborates that, in todays' world; simulation means the production of a real by models without any source or authenticity, which he (Baudrillard) terms as a hyperreal. Kashi & Ladani (2017) expound Huxley's Brave New World and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go in the light of Franchis Fukuyama's Our Posthuman Future to posit that the technocratic societies the two novels depict wield a catastrophic future for humanity. Taking Simulation and Simulacra in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: A Baudrillardian Appraisal Md Mozaffor Hossain 132 into consideration Fukuyama's warning that post-humanism is necessarily a threat to humanistic values, Kashi & Ladani (2017) explicate the vehement technological possession which overwhelms the characters of the novels and dehumanizes them constantly letting them be more of the used than the users.…”

Alienation and Existential Predicaments of Clones: Interpreting Never Let Me Go in the Context of Posthumanism

“…Although Never Let Me Go reads superficially like scientific fiction, various criticisms have explored its multi-dimensional significances beyond that. In western literary field, abundant researches have testified the novel in diverse approaches, mainly focusing on class privilege (Robbins, 2007), ethical implications (Roos, 2008), unconventional genre, narrative techniques and existential inquiries (Griffin, 2009), linguistic features (Pandey, 2011), aesthetic features (Mazullo, 2012), post-colonial theory (Vichinensing, 2017), structuralist analysis (Quach, 2017), and posthumanism aspect and dystopian tradition (Kashi & Ladani, 2017). In the line with similarly keen interests to the novel, scholars in Chinese literary field have recently conducted research on it from the perspectives of landscape analogy (Tseng, 2011), Foucauldian power mechanism (Wang, 2014), Bentham's model of panopticon (Li & Wang, 2014), existentialism (Zhang, 2014), and discourse functions (Su & Huang, 2014).…”

Transrealism: In Pursuit of Social Change and Collective Justice in Huxley's Brave New World

“…Kashi and Ladani (2017) look at the same issue and try " to examine two dystopian clone narratives -Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro -to explore the concept of posthumanism as a radical decentring of the human, humanism and the humanities in the wake of the complexification of technology" (Kashi & Ladani 2017, p. 19). They in fact conclude that to go on with such a posthuman condition, there will be " a state of crisis" in humanity (Kashi & Ladani 2017, p. 19).…”