Визије постхумане будућности у краткој причи Зимски рат у Тибету Фридриха Диренмата
Vision of a Post-Human Future in the Short Story The Winter War in Tibet by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Summary/Abstract: This paper provides an insight into the vision of a post-human future in the short story entitled The Winter War in Tibet by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It points to theories of the post-human, by which the creation of a new, cyborg-type of a human being and, at the same time, the defeat of the fiction of humankind, are implied. Through the apocalyptic vision of World War III, outlining the post-human conditions, as well as influences of human technical superstructure on the development of the identity of the soldier-protagonist, the author analyses the way the future and crisis of humanism are presented in the story. The analysis is methodologically rooted into the inter-disciplinary theory of new materialism, searching for the visions of life overcoming the established dichotomies such as organic versus non-organic, while a wider context of the story is explained through a biographic text on Dürrenmatt preceding the story. It shows that the post-human future is reflected in the vision of a cyborg soldier as a fragmented and lost human being, as well as in the overall destruction of the legacy of history and science.

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