Open AccessHumanist vestiges in contemporary science fiction
Author(s) -
Dorothea von Mücke
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cadernos de letras da uff
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-4207
pISSN - 1413-053X
DOI - 10.22409/cadletrasuff.2019n58a658
Subject(s) - sketch , humanism , art , invocation , literature , painting , art history , aesthetics , philosophy , sociology , anthropology , computer science , theology , algorithm
Both Spike Jonze’s her and Alex Garland’s ex machina make references to such outdated media and cultural techniques as the handwritten letter, the hand-drawn sketch, oil paintings and the bound volume of the book. An analysis of the use and function of these seemingly obsolete cultural techniques in the two science fiction movies reveals a surprising commitment to traditionally humanist values as grounded in the invocation of the individualized, mortal human body.---Original in English.