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The Vision of Technoethics in Posthuman Age: Richard Powers’s Gain
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This paper aims to point out the excessiveness of the corporation and to suggest the technoethics in posthuman age through the restoration of humanity and body, investigating the inverse proportional relationship between corporate body and corporeal body in Richard Powers’s Gain. Looking into the sovereign subjectivity of corporation, Powers proposes that humans should have the subjective responsibility for the prospect of posthuman material ecocriticism and biopolitics. Gain reveals the fictional aspects of the corporation as a legal person, analyzing the history of corporation in USA. Gain traces the history of multinational corporation, Clare Soap & Pharmaceutical Co., as Clare grows from the family business to the limited liability corporation. Laura Bodey, forty two-aged realtor, living in the vicinity of Clare Agricultural Chemical division at Lacewood, Illinois is diagnosed as having an ovarian cancer. Powers warns that the corporate capitalism can be a cancer. Laura Bodey’s struggles with cancer is duplicated with the rise of Clare. Laura’s body is invaded by the toxicity of Clare products. The Clare chemicals contaminate Laura’s body/system and transform her immune system. Powers describes America as a collective corporation rather than a nation. In conclusion, Powers proposes to search the vital sustainability and the correlative enhancement with human and technology in the viewpoint of posthuman ecocriticism, getting out of the ruthless domination of multinational corporation and the powerlessness of human beings in global networked world. Gain emphasizes the vibrancy of life forms in the continuum, pursuing the post-anthropocentrism, hybridity, and heterogeneity with multi-species.
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This paper aims to point out the excessiveness of the corporation and to suggest the technoethics in posthuman age through the restoration of humanity and body, investigating the inverse proportional relationship between corporate body and corporeal body in Richard Powers’s Gain. Looking into the sovereign subjectivity of corporation, Powers proposes that humans should have the subjective responsibility for the prospect of posthuman material ecocriticism and biopolitics. Gain reveals the fictional aspects of the corporation as a legal person, analyzing the history of corporation in USA. Gain traces the history of multinational corporation, Clare Soap & Pharmaceutical Co., as Clare grows from the family business to the limited liability corporation. Laura Bodey, forty two-aged realtor, living in the vicinity of Clare Agricultural Chemical division at Lacewood, Illinois is diagnosed as having an ovarian cancer. Powers warns that the corporate capitalism can be a cancer. Laura Bodey’s struggles with cancer is duplicated with the rise of Clare. Laura’s body is invaded by the toxicity of Clare products. The Clare chemicals contaminate Laura’s body/system and transform her immune system. Powers describes America as a collective corporation rather than a nation. In conclusion, Powers proposes to search the vital sustainability and the correlative enhancement with human and technology in the viewpoint of posthuman ecocriticism, getting out of the ruthless domination of multinational corporation and the powerlessness of human beings in global networked world. Gain emphasizes the vibrancy of life forms in the continuum, pursuing the post-anthropocentrism, hybridity, and heterogeneity with multi-species.
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