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Human Without Qualities

A close reading of Alan Turing’s seminal 1950 paper ‘Computing Machines and Intelligence’ in conjunction with a consideration of the specifically literary qualities of Philip K. Dick’s highly successful novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? suggests that each participates in the development of a concept of the posthuman as a voiding of traditional definitions of human capacities or qualities. Furthermore, if the question of the posthuman is primarily one of a contest of the disciplines – science versus the humanities – this convergence of fiction and technoscience suggests a productive reconfiguration of their articulation. In both Turing and Dick, the consideration of the human and the posthuman ceases to constitute a pre-eminently factual issue. The manner in which each author empties out positive human capabilities can be seen as the correlate of a thoroughgoing pragmatism, in which the posthuman implies that the claim to know and judge the human gives way to an openness to acknowledging the potentially absolute other. This means that the humanities infiltrate and inflect the sciences, rather than taking stock of their sometimes problematic achievements.