What makes one desire freedom? Does it come about with excessive control or could it result from insufficient power? I am going to explore these two ideas through the analysis of two texts, George Orwell’s renowned ‘1984’ and Neill Blomkamp’s science fiction ‘Elysium’. These two...
This word came into Latin from the Greek Elision. In classical mythology, Elysium, or the Elysian fields, was the home of the blessed after death, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the pure. Elysium: an ultimate state of happiness and...
From the wealthy, utopian space station Elysium in Elysium to Hugo Drax’s space station occupied by a “perfect” human race in the classic 007 film Moonraker, science fiction has imagined a “city upon a hill,” closed off from a more chaotic world below. Elysium is...
Abstract In a traditional sense humans have been considered to be solidly and indisputably classified as high-functioning animals, but both their biological and physical constraints limit/tether humankind to the base level. It is here that Post Humanism promises a condition in which humans and intelligent...