Chapter 8 How to Fight Historical Violence
Posthuman Spirituality in Cloud Atlas
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Abstract
The chapter examines some of the current repositionings of the questions of agency, equality and new millennium reconsiderations of the spiritual in a posthuman light, from a theoretical perspective informed by posthuman/transhuman theory (Haraway, Braidotti, Thomsen, Ferrando), transhuman theology (Gramont, Graham), and memory studies (Halbwachs). This inquiry draws on a comparison between David Mitchell’s 2004 novel Cloud Atlas and the film directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski (2012). My aim is to show that the emergence of posthuman agency in its most enhanced, divine form in Cloud Atlas is used to revise the historical process of an egalitarian consciousness-raising from a third millennium perspective.