Moulding a Villain in Billion Dollar Whale: A Post-Humanist Approach

The advancement of the human race and emergence new ideologies/movements often come hand in hand. Post-humanism is a concept whose origin can be traced to 1980s when people began challenge long-established views humanism. Humanism emphasises that world evaluated through fixed moral hierarchy where species must placed on top it. On contrary, post-humanism challenges this view by highlighting importance redefining what it means human. It urges embrace different identities see beyond its basic dualistic nature. This paper examines how post-humanistic ideas employed as tools mould villain, Jho Low, Tom Wright’s Bradley Hope’s Billion Dollar Whale. article draws from Donna Haraway (1985) relation ‘cyborg’ Francesca Ferrando’s (2019) discussion post-dualism breaks categorical differences between humans other non-human objects. argues book’s has been transformed so significantly he no longer bound his origins, physical presence, abilities attributed humans, eventually rendering him invincible. also highlights idea that, just with any human, villains evolve, too, offering perspective lens. Keywords: Whale; cyborg; Low; post-humanism; villain