Volume V Special Issue VI December 2025

Name of Author : Karthika.M

Title of the paper : The Digital Exodus: Technological Migrations and Posthuman Identity in William Gibsons Idoru

Abstract: William Gibsons Idoru 1996 presents a technologically mediated future in which the boundaries between organic and artificial identities dissolve, reshaping the meaning of humanhood. This paper analyses the novel through three interdependent conceptual frames, they are digital exodus, technological migration, and post-human identity. Drawing on Donna Haraways cyborg theory, N. Katherine Hayless posthumanism, Cary Wolfes critique of humanist subjectivity, Saskia Sassens theory of informational geographies and Francis Fukuyamas biotechnology anxieties, this paper argues that Idoru portrays a world in which identity becomes fluid, distributed and networked across digital infrastructures. Rather than viewing technology as a supplement to humanity, Gibson presents digital systems as structuring forces that fundamentally redefine the conditions of identity and agency.

Keywords : Exodus, identity, artificial intelligence, Idoru.

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Page Number : 110-113