ABSTRACT
The discourse of posthumanism is born as an attempt to resist and repair the discriminatory exclusion of the other who did not fit into the ideal human model—white, western, and male—enacted by humanist thinking and later on by the hubristic ultra-humanism represented by certain models of the posthuman. A contemporary concern that has gained strength in current times and belongs to the critical posthumanist agenda is how advanced technologies can affect humans’ identities and bodies. The Handmaid’s Tale shows how in a society that was already technological, information and surveillance become key instruments for citizen control. In the Anthropocene era, the impact of human action is visible on the layers of the Earth. Regarding MaddAddam, its palindromic title implicitly suggests circularity and eternal return. MaddAddam, as a cli-fi novel, describes the Earth inhabitants’ way of living in the time before and after the Anthropocene, considered as a border stage.
