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Research Paper | English Language and Literature | Volume 15 Issue 1, January 2026 | Pages: 1542 - 1546 | India
Internal and External Ruin: Exploring Android and Human Self Fragmentation in Dilman Dila's "The Blue House" through Necropolitics, Posthumanism, and Post-Anthropocentrism
Abstract: This paper explores the intersection of subjectivity, fragmentation, and existence, "The Blue House" by Dilman Dila, focusing on the fragmentation of the android self and its connection to the human self through frameworks of posthumanism, post-anthropocentrism, and necropolitics. This study investigates how the android self reflects both internal and external forms of ruin in a post-apocalyptic world. Incorporating Rosi Braidotti's posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism theories, the paper explores how the blurring boundaries of the human self and the android destabilise traditional norms of subjectivity. Achille Mbembe's concept of necropolitics further investigates the fragmentation within the capitalistic system that controls not only power but also extinction, dehumanisation, and politics of dying. Positioning "The Blue House" as a post-humanist and post-anthropocentric text, this paper problematizes how Dila reconstructs the figure of the android not only as an imitation of humanity but as a site where survival, memory, and fragmentation intersect the boundaries between human and non-human, while also reflecting the class hierarchies embedded in survival within a capitalistic necropolitical setting. This paper argues that the android's fractured consciousness is shaped by the necropolitical violence of external ruin and the trauma of a lost human past, while simultaneously revealing posthuman and post-anthropocentric possibilities that challenge normative human?machine binaries.
Keywords: The Blue House, Dilman Dila, posthumanism, post-anthropocentrism, necropolitics, subjectivity, memory, fragmentation, post-apocalyptic
How to Cite?: Ifrath Sana Burhan, "Internal and External Ruin: Exploring Android and Human Self Fragmentation in Dilman Dila's "The Blue House" through Necropolitics, Posthumanism, and Post-Anthropocentrism", Volume 15 Issue 1, January 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1542-1546, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR26125215257, DOI: https://dx.dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR26125215257