HUMANS is highly polysemic - it has many meanings. This means that it appeals to a wider audience and that it it very dense. However, this means that it is quite hard to understand.

Donna Harraway - "we are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism": here she is saying that people's lives are so influenced by the technology we use, and things which help us to become more advanced. The use of technology in society helps us within life in order to improve the way we think, feel and do things in order to make our lives more convenient.

Globalisation is something that we rely on a lot in the modern world because products are made and imported from other countries to our own. In the other countries, they are made using technology (i.e machines) and transported using technology ( i.e. trucks). This displays how much human beings rely on technology and that it truly is becoming a part of us.

WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN?
- we are much more sophisticated
- we are inquisitive
- we search for fulfilment
- we have empathy and feelings
- we have education
- we want to make ourselves better
- we are ingenious as we find ways to survive
- we have love however it is complicated

Anita is an interesting character because she is much more than just a robot, and what many of the synths in 'Humans' do is challenge us to think about why we do certain things and why we make certain conscious decisions - it is allegorical.


GENDER PERFORMATIVITY

  • the way we act and dress is what defines gender identities
  • an example of this is the stereotype associated with makeup, and the way that people often assume something about women through not only the way their makeup is done, but also if they don't wear any
  • from our birth, we are dressed in clothes that define our sex and given toys which display our sex to the rest of the world

PATRIARCHAL IDEOLOGY AND DOMINANCE IN 'HUMANS'
  1. When he is left alone with the children, he buys a female synth to get help with the housework
  2. Chooses a synth which is a female (links to nuclear family)
  3. The sales person for the synth is a male
  4. Joe is named as the "primary user" suggesting that he is in charge
  5. The young boy is clearly finding the synth attractive and stares at her frequently
  6. Leo orders Niska to turn her pain off, and this is an order displaying his dominance
  7. Female synth in brothel is ordered around by 'customer' and she obeys
  8. Clear decision by father "we're not taking it back"
  9. The first synth was created by a man to replace his wife

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