Hegemonic signs in the film Ex-Machina: robotization and control

• Autor: Morales Campos, Arturo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad de Lima
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ulima.edu.pe:article/4870
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/contratexto/article/view/4870
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: hegemonic sign; text; ideology; transhumanism; moral enhancement; signo hegemónico; texto; ideología; transhumanismo; bio-mejoramiento ético; Sinal hegemônico; ideologia; melhoramento moral

Through socio-semiotics theory, the film Ex-Machina (Garland, 2015) contains some hegemonic signs which could be linked to the human robotization phenomenon. Within that fictional strategy of the film, we find political and commercial ideologies. These ideologies can be materialized in two proposals: transhumanism and moral bio-enhancement. Specifically, part of the current research devoted to increasing human capacities is directed towards a new and deeper social division of a Darwinian nature: on the one hand, the attractive possibility of overcoming the “obsolete” human body, on the other, the distribution of drugs to produce docile and “ethical” humans.