Robopocalypse (2011) is a novel by American science fiction writer, Daniel H. Wilson, which involves a war between humans and robots. As we are living in an era with technological advances, this is a good reason to analyze it in the frame of technological dehumanization where it carries a message that human beings in the modern days are gradually dehumanized and prosthetized. This novel offers a techno-centric view of a futuristic world which robots and technological gadgets tries to get rid of human race and prove them as a stronger nation in power. It depicts a world of which robots gain consciousness and desire to put an end to human’s manipulation over them. This paper will study the foreshadowed message of technological dehumanization and technocentrism in this novel. It will also examine Wilson’s fictional world where human is being degraded from flexibility to rigidity.


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    Title :

    Technocentrism and Technological Dehumanization in Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse


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    Publication date :

    2016-01-19


    Remarks:

    doi:10.17507/tpls.0601.04
    Theory and Practice in Language Studies; Vol 6, No 1 (2016); 34-39 ; 1799-2591



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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