Chapter 5 Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You: Can a Machine Be “Killed”?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: What Comes After Postmodernism? 1
4. Chapter 1 Transcendence: Death or Rebirth of Metaphysics? 16
5. Chapter 2 The Technological “Monstrum”: Her by Spike Jonze 31
6. Chapter 3 Dan Brown’s Origin: Can God Survive Technology? 42
7. Chapter 4 The Circle: Technological Dictatorship 59
8. Chapter 5 Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You: Can a Machine Be “Killed”? 77
9. Chapter 6 Ex Machina: Technological Re-reading of Myth 91
10. Chapter 7 Blade Runner 2049: The Christological Perspective of Technology 103
11. Conclusion: The Promethean Dialectic of Technology 114
12. Bibliography 124
13. Index of Names 128