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Detroit Become HumanMain MenuErin Delaney025b2f64f51a6f5572cf01fdd8fffd9be1dd2c19
Posthuman (Im)Mortality
12019-04-14T02:27:43-07:00Erin Delaney025b2f64f51a6f5572cf01fdd8fffd9be1dd2c193290112The Many Lives of Connorimage_header2019-04-17T21:23:39-07:00Erin Delaney025b2f64f51a6f5572cf01fdd8fffd9be1dd2c19Whereas the possible deaths of Kara and Markus are permanent and result in closing off further access to their story arc for that play through, Connor as an agent of Cyberlife is given the opportunity to come back in a different version of his body each time a player may end up causing him to die. This is shown to be not without consequence however, as continuous deaths will alienate Hank and cause Connor to lose memories and remain a more "stable machine" lowering the likelyhood of having the option to "become human" later. This is starkly different than Markus's "death" and further ressurrection inside the Cyberlife dump, where androids not created for highly classified purposes do not have the priviledged chance Connor does to respawn. This brings up questions of the necropolitics of the android body once it has been finished being used for human purposes. (Braidotti, 62) Between a possible moment at Zlatko's for Kara to have her memory wiped and gain it back as well as the existence of the Connor line proves that these androids shutting down is not equivalent to human death if they are later repaired, which takes some of the impact of other scenes away. It also brings about interesting questions of what it means to be alive and to exist, because in the times between repairs assumedly Connor is passive and inert, his consciousness nothing but potential code waitng to be reuploaded. How would this affect our experience of the stream of consciousness humans are used to? What would temporality look like for androids like Connor?
Connor's Cyberlife handler, inside of Connor's mind palace, turns out to be a reproduction of a friend of Kamski's, Amanda. This also brings about questions of Cyberlifes plans for these androids: are they planning on merging human consiousness with android bodies? Merging human consiousness with android consciousness? Was Amanda more of a ptrototype to help them learn about AI or does it show where they want to head?
12019-04-14T02:37:50-07:00Hank's reaction to Connor's return1Outside of the Stratford Tower. Detroit: Become Human https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/tid=CUSA08344_00.plain2019-04-14T02:37:50-07:00
