Abstract: | In the article, Gorliński-Kucik describes the determinants of science fiction conventions which aim at investigatiing the future of man and civilization. In doing so, the
author reflects on movies released in recent years (2013–2019), which, in his opinion,
best exemplify the problem in question, i.e. the construal of transhumanism. Analysed
films include: Her (2013), Under the Skin (2013), Lucy (2014), Transcendence (2014), Chappie (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Ghost in the Shell (2017), Alita: Battle
Angel (2019), and Netflix animated anthology Love, Death & Robots (2019). Gorliński-
-Kucik concludes that vast majority of interpreted movies addressess the post-human
and predicts its appearance in the near future―without, however, fully escaping the
eponymoys dichotomy of hope and paranoia. |