Superstar to Superhuman: Scarlett Johansson, an ‘Ideal’ Embodiment of the Posthuman Female in Science Fiction and Media?

From 2013 to 2017, Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson was the star vehicle in four unrelated science fiction films that saw her portray a posthuman female enabled by artificially intelligent technology. As such technologies become ever more ubiquitous world, so too are burgeoning discourses around posthumanism and artificial intelligence, which predominantly disseminated non-specialists through journalistic media. These hold power influence our perceptions of incoming technological advancements. Therefore, it is important gain an interdisciplinary understanding these their intersections order contribute cultivation general population technologically literate empowered, as well foster productive dialogues between specialists from within across sciences humanities fields. The media’s configuration ‘exceptional’ woman, often drawing upon lexicon fiction, has initiated underlying connections figures genre, contributing perceived suitability for roles. Despite appearing be ‘ideal’ candidate roles, Johansson’s repeated casting poses several problematic implications, particularly when taken into consideration feminist lens. Not only does agenda establishes improbable conceptions how artificial, entities should look behave, but also perpetuates retrograde notions gender