Readers on Transhumanism and Post/Humanism

Abstract

The previous chapter addressed the question, “What sense do readers of superhero comics make of the posthuman body?” and focused on the discursive realm of the Superhuman. As has been highlighted throughout this book however, the posthuman body is formed of an assemblage of overlapping discursive realms. Any understanding of how readers make sense of the posthuman body must also then consider these other domains. The current chapter focuses on the discursive realms of Transhumanism and Post/Humanism by illustrating how readers responded to the idea of human enhancement in the real world, and the role that superhero comics played in this understanding.