“Ser” ser humano: projetando o futuro através do humano-máquina nas narrativas dos jogos Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Soma e The Talos Principle.

Abstract

This master thesis aims to comprehend which future is being projected in the narrative of The Talos Principle , SOMA e Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 , specifically in the relationship between the human being and the machine. As such, the overall theory framework of R. Koselleck and P. Ricoeur is utilized, with regards to the historical time - and its link between space of experience and the horizon of expectation - as well as the configurative aspect of the plot. Beyond the theoretical propositions accrue from history, the analysis is also supported by some propositions in the design field so that the chosen games can be properly deconstructed and analized. Finally, the Human-machine, as a analitical category, is also proposed; in other words, a category that highlights the moments in which this relation challenges the assuredness of the “being” - being human and being machine. Therefore, the text is divided in three moments: a prefigurative, in which the history of the different uses of the Human-machine is called out. A configurative, describing the narrative of the games and the topics that are going to be analyzed. Lastly, a refigurative, in which the topics raised are related between each other for a better comprehension of this future, both in common to the three games and in their difference. With this, it concludes that the future present in the three games is of theological, cartesian and contradictory nature, that is, it is based in a christian religious creed coming from the orthodoxy; it interprets the human being in his consciousness, not in his body; it is dependent on capital, in the various different levels.