Abstract: In Machines Like Me, The digital life represented by Adam and the natural life represented by Charlie cross the threshold of “human and technology” to become an indistinguishable cyber-life since they follow the same laws of existence. The events such as “Charlie reaching out to turn off Adam’s power” illustrate a significant separation between humans and robots in view of bio-politics. The sovereign power possessed by Charlie and the bare life carried by Adam construct two opposites of bio-politics which inevitably lead to the politics of death. Adam’s “suicide,” on the other hand, breaks up the paradox of bio-politics on the issue of life and death, thus realizing the depoliticization of life. The crossing of the threshold implies the generation of a new existence. The author Ian McEwan uses the coexistence and communion as a metaphor for the new possibility of potential and ubiquitous human-machine community to imagine the cyber future.

Key words: Machines Like Me, natural life, digital life, bio-politics, human-machine community