ILLUSION OF AUTONOMY: CYBORG INTERACTIONS AND AI’S ULTERIOR MECHANISMS IN ANNALEE NEWITZ’S AUTONOMOUS

Abstract

This research paper explores the themes of Bio-tech, Bio-med and autonomy key in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous. The ground theory that supports the research objectives is excerpted from Donna Harraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto(2016). both the texts together provide an explicit image of cyborg world, blurred identities and the question of autonomy. This research further extends to comment on man’s role in a machine dominated world, his role as an engineer, a generator, a creator and then as a subordinate of his own creation. Man’s faculties , as perceived by today’s human beings, seem to be lacking in tact and skill in front the result of a project he himself initiated. Starting from the mundane everyday experiences that are affected by technology to an unbearable extent, the paper the seeks to find the reasons and ulterior mechanisms behind the chaotic surface of problematic cyborg interactions.The conclusion on the aforementioned questions is drawn by following the narrative in the novel as well as the theory book so this article provides a

deeper understanding of both texs as well as the practical life experiences happening around us all the time.