29 Oct panel: The Future of Posthumanism (with STRP)
Have you ever dreamt of transcending your body of flesh and blood? Uploading your brain to the cloud? Living eternal life in a metaverse? Don’t we all dream of infinite life? Transhumans are living toward these sci-fi visions. Transhumanism refers to a philosophical movement that aims to radically enhance the human condition with extremely sophisticated technologies in order to reach an improved version of homo sapiens. Whereas transhumanism is associated with a small, privileged group of tech entrepreneurs who engage in advanced cryonics and (Do-It-Yourself) upgrading of their bodies and minds, posthumanism is a more feminist endeavor, taking a less human-centric position. It starts from a perspective that we can employ technology to learn and interact more with other species as part of the living environment. How can we use human technologies to create better connections with our environments and other species? This broad scope and unlimited vision of being connected to the world and universe that we are living in also transcends the typical post-capitalist quest for the individual, instead of embracing the collective as a new source of living and dying together. What will the future of posthumanism look like?
STRP and (IM)POSSIBLE BODIES collaborated to explore future scenarios for cyborgs, trans-, and posthumanism.