A Posthuman Gestation of Cyborg War Machines in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan

Abstract

Human beings and their lifestyle have always been transforming every age. This transformation of their trends and culture changing their lifestyle and outfits started to shift to focus on changing their biological outfit after the revolutionary inventions in medical, cosmetic and technological science. Posthumanism theory discusses about the modification of the biological outfits of humans through medical, cosmetic surgeries, genetic modification, etc., as a gateway to the creation of posthumans like cyborgs. Cyborg, the posthuman creature is posited more of an ideological human than a transformed hybrid human. Many Posthuman theorists suggest that the modification of man using emerging technologies will deconstruct the hindrances by man and his ideologies. Thus, the cyborg will amalgamate man with the excluded human, nonhuman entities, animals and his environment by machines, technologies. The flawless hybridity of a human recreation through the man machine interface has brought dubious enquiries on the ethics and laws in the creation and existence of cyborgs. This paper explores the negative consequences of misusing technologies and humans in the creation of unethical cyborgs in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan.