This essay uses Steven Spielberg’s Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to argue that something
has changed: “Posthumanity” has appeared because our rational assimilation of the world has paused. To be Human is to
lack, to always drive forward while repressing the past, the artifice of our birth, as we mold the
world in our image. However, in a strange way, with cloning and other technologies, this
digestion is interrupted; “we” humans have succeeded too well in our masterful creation of an
absolute representation of humanity, and have lost our impetus. This mastery, secondly, leads us
to experience birth in a new way. No longer can we easily digest birth (and its others) and move
on. No, birth now surrounds us like an immense, sublime ocean, undermining us as desiring
subjects.