Entropy and the Figure of the Posthuman in a Closed System in The Passenger (1975) and Solaris (1972)

S. Kushwaha¹

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Vol.7 , Issue.4 , pp.11-16, Apr-2021

Online published on Apr 30, 2021

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Abstract :
Earth’s relationship to humanity was transformed post the second World War leading to a change in the way cinema interacted with the space of the Earth and its inhabitants. Through the increasing disorder in a closed system, entropy, the second law of thermodynamics and the notion of the posthuman, this paper demonstrates how the relationship between the human, the nonhuman and earth has been inevitably transformed. Through the emerging figure of a human, a negentropic force that counters the increasing entropy of the universe, this paper questions the figure of the posthuman and expands upon our notions of what being human and becoming human comprise of. This paper negotiates the ever-shifting boundaries of the ontological and phenomenological understanding of human and the nonhuman through two films, i.e, Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris. Through the relationship of the self to the other and towards itself, the paper will be examining how the self locates itself against and in tandem with the objects, entities and events surrounding it.

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