@article{ART003282711},
author={Lee, ranhee},
title={The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2025},
volume={38},
number={3},
pages={51-75}
TY - JOUR
AU - Lee, ranhee
TI - The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2025
VL - 38
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 51
EP - 75
SN - 1226-3397
AB - In the 21st century, the debate over whether genomes and DNA sequences are human or non-human has shifted from the realm of biology to the realms of ethics, data science, and posthuman philosophy. Genetic testing now operates within a digital framework that transforms biological life into data. From an ethical perspective, this shift raises urgent questions about ‘informed consent’ and the boundaries of human identity. In his book Homo Deus, Harari argues that human civilization has always been sustained by shared fictions—stories that provide symbolic coherence to chaotic data. However, Harari warns that in the age of dataism, a worldview that views the universe as a flow of information rather than a realm of meaning, these narratives are being replaced by data. The genome is no longer a human story, but a data set. In this sense, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s play Informed Consent (2015) reveals that the conflict over DNA ownership within the Havasupai tribe is not simply about data itself, but about storytelling, staging a conflict between two anthropological paradigms. This paper, through Harari’s analytical framework, seeks to illuminate how the conflicts among the characters in Informed Consent manifests as a microcosm of a larger epistemological shift within humanity, a clash between the narrative meaning of humanism and the logic of dataism.
KW - Informed Consent;Storytelling;Homo Deus;Humanism;Dataism
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Lee, ranhee. (2025). The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent. Journal of Modern English Drama, 38(3), 51-75.
Lee, ranhee. 2025, "The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.38, no.3 pp.51-75.
Lee, ranhee "The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent" Journal of Modern English Drama 38.3 pp.51-75 (2025) : 51.
Lee, ranhee. The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent. 2025; 38(3), 51-75.
Lee, ranhee. "The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent" Journal of Modern English Drama 38, no.3 (2025) : 51-75.
Lee, ranhee. The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent. Journal of Modern English Drama, 38(3), 51-75.
Lee, ranhee. The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2025; 38(3) 51-75.
Lee, ranhee. The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent. 2025; 38(3), 51-75.
Lee, ranhee. "The Transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: The Conflict Between Humanistic Meaning and Dataistic Logic in Deborah Joy Laufer’s Informed Consent" Journal of Modern English Drama 38, no.3 (2025) : 51-75.
