Robots, androids, cyborgs, sentient computers, and other products endowed with human-like intelligence have crowded and still crowd popular culture. The advent of a new digital understanding, achieved by the development of forms of artificial intelligence, has rapidly transformed human society, becoming an increasingly widespread everyday presence. Popular culture has always played a key role in helping people understand these and other complex situations: it provides tools for resistance, as even the darkest narrative can invoke awareness, mobilization, challenge to the status quo, and imagination of a utopian future. Therein, the posthuman represents a dream and a nightmare, a possibility of progress and a sentence, a medium of freedom or an act of exploitation. It embodies both an ot... Più