Abstract
In the light of the novel The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke, 1956), this paper discusses the impacts of new technologies—namely, cybernetics, computer networks, and Artificial Intelligence advent—on representations of corporeality, its limits, and transmutations. At first, it will briefly highlight how techniques of the body are mostly concerned with enhancing human biology (until getting rid of it) to circumvent vulnerabilities of the flesh, especially death. Then, Clarke’s novel will be used as an analytical lens, as it anticipates philosophical implications arising from “technological immortality,” expressed in the mind-upload theory and its ideal body transcendence—a singular junction between metaphysics and computer sciences.
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