Ieşirea din timp. Perspectivele nemuririi cibernetice
Escape from Time. The Prospects of Cibernatic Immortality

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the idea that literature wins its place in the middle of Posthumanist debates through anchoring in the repercussions of technology questioning over the human, our present paper aims to emphasize the human being’s collateral implications. Analysing the changes through which the characters of the novel Vincent Nemuritorul, written by Bogdan Suceavă, led us towards the assumption that the “death” which it is “lived” in a cybernetic environment, that creates an illusionary image of a paradise negotiates the human up to its complete eradication. The primary utopia of a world in which the human can taste the eternity, enjoying all those things that his limited biological living denied to him is replaced by a dystopian vision concerning an endless non-human existence. Death, technologically embellished , is revealed not as an end of an embodied life, but as a start of dehumanization through the transformation of human resorts still stuffed with feelings in frustrated, emptied of affectivity entities. The mixture of human and technology cannot be balanced so as to maintain the human qualities and to use the advantages of the technology. Inbetween those two states it is a war that unleashes through which is pursued an ultimate and complete invading in the human by the technology. The real death doesn't come together with the detachment from the body, but together with the estrangement from all that it is typically human.

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