ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on contemporary posthuman theory, as articulated in the writings of Rosi Braidotti, Katherine Hayles, and Patricia MacCormack. It examines the model of the posthuman and its biopolitical situation, and its representations, through a close reading of Her and its narrative of bio-virtuality. A biopolitics of the posthuman from simulation to embeddedness moves toward a state of bio-virtuality in which ontological categories of the biological and the virtual no longer stand as separate situations. Using Alain Badiou's model of the truth-event of love, the chapter explores the catalyst of the rise of the posthuman and the manners in which this affective process takes place in the films noted and within digital culture at large. A Deleuzian model of the Anti-Oedipal operations of desiring-machines joined against Marshall McLuhan's reflections on the attraction between the human and the machine
