ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Margaret Atwood, Posthumanism, Essentialism
22 Aug 2016
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Lecture 12 oryx and crake (2003) margaret atwood. Philosophical/epistemological framework that critiques essentialist constructions of human and nature . Further suggests that these categories are artificial in and of themselves: the difference between the natural and the human civilization is a made up category. Post humanists speak of nature-cultures a term they argue more adequately describes our immersion in material environments that are constantly being made and unmade through the interaction between nature and culture and between human and non-human. Just as lost in the new world as snowman is. Page 100 first proper description: racialization crakers have no symbolic order to distinguish between races/skin color, snowman is left chilled because they are so inhuman. Crakers are made to be the perfect beings. Snowman is illustrated as a castaway during the beach scene. Snowman begins to feel more and more distinct from the crakers as the story progresses (he feels deformed)
