ABSTRACT

The present study seeks to analyze Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novel The Doors of Eden (2020) to describe how posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism can go hand-in-hand in contemporary speculative fiction. The novel itself is a masterpiece in world-building where the action takes place against the background of an eternally proliferating multiversal reality. Parallel worlds, sentient monsters, posthuman, non-human entities abound in the novel, and this will be seen as complementary and conducive to the posthuman universe-building in the narrative. Through the analysis of the novel The Doors of Eden, I have attempted to show how posthumanism can effectively dismantle and destroy a human-centered worldview by incorporating tropes of monstrosity, alienness, immersive virtual reality, mind-uploading, and integration of mind and machine – all of which eventually come together to define and reinforce the post-anthropomorphic paradigm. For the purpose of the explication, the author has adopted various theoretical insights from the renowned contemporary theoreticians among which Rosi Braidotti’s criticalposthumanism, Barad’s intra-action and agential realism, and Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and, Lenton & Latour’s Gaia 2.0 hypothesis will be important.

摘要

本研究旨在分析阿德里安·柴可夫斯基的小说《伊甸之门》（2020），以描述后人类主义和后人类中心主义如何在当代投机小说中齐头并进。这部小说本身就是世界建构的杰作，其中的动作发生在一个永恒增殖的多元现实的背景下。平行世界、有知觉的怪物、后人类、非人类实体在小说中比比皆是，这将被视为对叙事中后人类宇宙建设的补充和有益。通过对小说《伊甸之门》的分析，我试图展示后人类主义如何通过结合怪物、异化、沉浸式虚拟现实、思想上传以及思想和机器的整合等比喻来有效地瓦解和摧毁以人为中心的世界观——所有这些最终共同定义和强化后拟人化范式。为了阐述的目的，作者借鉴了当代著名理论家的各种理论见解，其中包括 Rosi Braidotti 的批判后人类主义、Barad 的行动内和代理现实主义、Bruno Latour 的 Actor-Network Theory (ANT) 和 Lenton & Latour 的 Gaia 2.0假设将很重要。