Abstract
Comparing the representations of a family in the 1965–1968 scientific television series Lost in Space and its 2018–2021 remake, the article explicates the worldview principles of the family building as a cyborganic community from the perspective of contemporary philosophical anthropology. The conceptual framework is based on Donna Haraway’s work on identity and community formation. Her ideas are considered in the context of new ontologies. The article attempts to ontologize the anthropological issues. Here, the interpretation of Donna Haraway’s approach is not limited to feminist theory or gender studies and correlates with such philosophical projects as Ernst Kapp’s philosophy of technology, Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, Dilan Trigg’s phenomenology of horror and Timothy Morton’s object-oriented ontology. Both the 1965–1968 TV series and the 2018–2021 remake demonstrate that the family is the basis of society, equally necessary for survival on the Earth and on other planets. Both TV series represent a “planetary” family, that is, an exemplary family reflecting all of humanity. However, the worldview principles of assembling the family as a community differ in the two series. While in the original series, the representation of the Robinson family does not transcend the boundaries of the modern discourse of a family, the assemblage of the family in the remake unfolds within an approach that goes beyond the legacy of modernity and emphasizes cyborgization and the cyborganic community building.
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