![]() The contemporary grounds for the critique of modern politics have also populated debates on today’s questions of democracy, political participation, the public sphere, pluralism, gender, ecology and freedom, to name but a few. In this context, this article aims to exemplify the posthuman experiences of men and masculinities by focusing on Ian McEwan's novel Machines Like Me to examine cyborgs the queer and fluid sexualities and explore posthuman sexualities from critical studies of masculinities perspective. ![]() ![]() The heteronormative society in which diverse and non-conforming sexualities are perceived as queer necessarily regards cyborgs (and embodied artificial intelligence) as queer and problematizes the fluidity of cyborg sexuality, and Ian McEwan's cyborg in Machines Like Me provokes the fear of losing masculinity in such a society. In this regard, cyberpunk, for instance, offers a valuable resource in defining and analyzing diverse sexualities in the tradition of speculative fiction. ![]() Postwar science fiction frequently urged to reconsider many norms considered natural in society and introduced a diversity of taken-for-granted norms, particularly gender norms. ![]()
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