TESTI / 1 / Thomas Macho /
The question concerning the relationship between humans, animals and machines has been often posed as a core thematic of post-humanism. The problem is presented with a specific culture-historical perspective, which enables to understand the historical role played by differences and analogies between these three entities. Philip K. Dick´s science-fiction work offers a way to engage with the problem, whose imaginative power expressed in his body of work manages to anticipate possible solutions. The author shows nonetheless how history itself can be the right key to understand humans, animals and machines, not only as empty essentialities, but also as agencies in complex relationships, through which we can re-think the existing hierarchies.
