Body Drift: On the Precariousness of Posthuman Life in Never Let Me Go
Body Drift: On the Precariousness of Posthuman Life in Never Let Me Go

Summary/Abstract: Using Arthur Kroker’s concept of “body drift” as the image that encrypts the polyvalent directions of posthuman culture, this study explores the inseverable utopian and dystopian moves whereby enselved human bodies are made and unmade in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) and its homonymous film adaptation (directed by Mark Romanek, 2010). Never Let Me Go projects a vision which outlines the perils that body drift might pose to the not-quite-human under the impact of the “new eugenics” and emphasizes the necessity to address the precariousness of posthuman life with utmost consideration for those whom Donna Haraway sees as inappropriate/d (biotechnological) others.

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