![]() ![]() The article examines the ways machines and automata are imagined and become part of lived human existence, in the light of Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and otherness. However, a genuine dialogue is where there is no master and where communication and understanding are achieved through the encounter and through openness to difference and to change. Our relationship with machines frequently suggests a classical “I-it” situation. We suggest that the fear of technology depicted in dystopian literature indicates a fear that machines are mimicking the roles that humans already play in relational encounters. Dystopian societies are often characterized by dehumanization and Forster’s novel raises questions about how we live in time and space and how we establish relationships with the Other and with the world through technology. ![]() Forster’s story The Machine Stops (1909) as an example of dystopian literature and its possible associations with the use of technology and with today’s cyber culture. ![]()
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