Care in Humanitarianism and Post-humanist Times: The Impossible, AI Robots, and Oryx & Crake

On the theme of care, this chapter is an inter-disciplinary analysis of the film The Impossible (2012), the Netflix television series Love, Death +Robots (2022), and the novel Oryx & Crake (2003). This chapter explores care in the three cases, ranging from film studies, Netflix animation, and literature. First, the film The Impossible (J. A. Bayona, 2012) portrays that the chaos caused by the massive catastrophe tsunami in 2004 is on care, catastrophe, and body, especially the mother’s serious body injuries. I argue the mother’s bleeding body echoes to the sacred and sacrificial Mater dolorosa. Secondly, applying Post-humanism and Transhumanism, those cyborgs AI robots in the sci-fi genre streaming series Love, Death +Robots (Netflix 2022) on AI rebellion are discussed by using Deleuze and Guattari’s criticism. Thirdly, the Snowman takes care of the Craigers in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx & Crake (2003), the dystopia posthuman speculative Sci-Fi future world is represented in footage trailer (2016). Approaches of Post-humanism, Transhumanism, Feminism, and film studies empower us to navigate the unknown sic-fi future filled with the issues of post-cyborg ethics, cross-species, monstrosity, and AI robots. In the Anthropocene, human beings care to fix broken hearts for hope even if facing the impossible unknown.