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This paper explores the intersection of information technology and gender performativity in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me, drawing on Donna Haraway’s concept of the informatics of domination and Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman feminist methodology. Haraway argues that with the rise of information technology, modern power has shifted from hierarchical, organism-based control to modes of regulation rooted in data, code, and informational flows, transforming gender into a programmable construct. Within this framework, the paper examines how human characters like Charlie and Miranda are shaped by shifting gender norms, and how posthuman figures like Adam and Eve embody a reconfigured, technologically produced form of gender. As Braidotti states, gender is a meta-methodological tool, a navigational instrument—gender is as gender does, positioning the androids as critical sites for mapping the material and algorithmic production of gender. Viewed through this lens, the novel reveals how posthuman entities challenge and redefine embodied identity in an age of algorithmic governance. This reading ultimately reveals how literary narratives can serve as critical sites for interrogating the entanglement of power, technology, and gendered subjectivity in the posthuman condition.