Posthuman Yearning: Technogenesis Sensetivity, and the Cyborg Mind in Novel “Klara and the Sun”

Abstract

This research explores Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” through the theoretical perspective of posthumanism, technogenesis and cyborg identity. The study evolve how protagonist Klara represent a posthuman subject whose consciousness evolve through emotional learning, environmental awareness, and human interaction. Rendering on N. Katherine Hayles, this research argues that Klara’s sensitivity and selfhood are not pre-programed but emerge through relational experiences and demonstrating how humans and machines co-create meaning. Furthermore, this research incorporates Donna Haraway concept of cyborg which challenges essential view of human by posting Klara as a being exceed of binary of artificial and organic life. Through Klara’s moral reasoning and the spiritual believe on Sun and ability for care and the novel construct the new model of subjectivity: one that is emotionally intelligent, technologically embedded and ethically aware. This thesis contributes to posthumanist literary discourse by highlighting how Klara optimize both mechanical logic and human longing revealing the emotional and ethical dimensions of artificial consciousness in socially divided world.