131880 20240219150723.0 sideral 137060 ART-2021-137060 eng Calvo Pascual, Mónica Carolina Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3846-468X The Tiger Flu: a critical posthumanist response to the Illusion of transhumanism 2021 Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (2018) is an example of speculative fiction set in a dystopian context of climate devastation marked by a struggle for the global control of knowledge and the economy on the part of two opposed technological corporations in a futuristic North American region dominated by Old China. This article analyzes how the novel builds a critique upon the excesses and potential risks of current transhumanist philosophy, engaged in the technological enhancement of human beings, and the concurrent social exclusion and exploitation of the underprivileged minorities barred from access to it. My aim is to demonstrate that the ethical alternative proposed by the novel embraces the postulates of critical posthumanism defended by leading theorists like N. Katherine Hayles and Rosi Braidotti, who put forth a postanthropocentric position of embodied embeddedness as opposed to other posthumanist approaches, like cybernetic posthumanism, which vindicated the transcendence of the human mind by dislodging it from the body. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2019-106855GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 7, 1 (2021), 99-110 He´lice (Madr.) Hélice 2792-3452 https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7985415 Texto completo de la revista 293321 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/131880/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1794875 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/131880/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:131880 articulos driver 2024-02-19-13:29:28 ARTICLE