Influence of Technology, Reconfiguring Identity and Power in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest

<p>The world today is transforming at an unprecedented rate, with technology serving as the driving force of this rapid change. Catalysed by the global pandemic of 2020, the virtual space became the only space available for interaction to us, making it as tangible as the realm of the physical world and thereby erasing the once sharp distinction between the two. Deriving from Donna Haraway's cyborg theory, Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra and hyperreality and Teilhard de Chardin’s idea of the noosphere, this paper demonstrates how the constant interaction between technology and humans redefines human identities and challenges the very fundamental natural process of evolution replacing it with an anthropocentric, hierarchically directed process. By closely reading Manjula Padmanabhan's play Harvest, this study aims to discuss the social-ethical dimensions of technoscience and their influence on the human world. </p>