Approximations between Nature and Culture in Westworld: World’s End, Programming and Free Will

Abstract

This paper's goal is to analyze Warner Bros and HBO's streaming series Westworld, in face of the growing importance of digital technologies in the creation and solution of problems related to the current climate crisis, which can ruin environmental conditions for the survival of humans (and many other species). This analysis will take into account academic, entrepreneurial and fictional debates on the possibilities of the technologies mobilized by the Singularity hypothesis's narratives and imaginaries, which foresee, in its limits, the replacement of biologic nature for computing technology. The conditions of humanity of such new race, from which it should be able to make choices, experience affections and build individual personalities will be brought into discussion, since these are ground aspects for the constitution of both the modern man, upon which laws and governments are directed, and this new post-human man, whose humanity is attested by these very characteristics.