In the context of Michel Serres'and posthumanism's proposal of rethinking the human and the world in a perspective of universal co-belonging,silence(of the human word)assumes the function of a catalyst for the...In the context of Michel Serres'and posthumanism's proposal of rethinking the human and the world in a perspective of universal co-belonging,silence(of the human word)assumes the function of a catalyst for the recognition of the human body in its aesthetic,cognitive,relational,and hybrid dimensionality,and of the world in its agency(including artistic).Within this framework,the contribution proposes a reading of art as a relation and catalyzer of relations,that is,as a(re)activation of positive relations of the human with a world that reveals itself to be increasingly hyper-complex.Taking Serresian ideas on artistic practices as not(only)human forms of expression and some posthumanist"isomorphic"positions on non-human agency as tools,the research then highlights the more-than-human scope of art.展开更多
Faced with the challenge of arguments about the relation of post-,and trans-humanism,putting forth questions on their“antagonism”,or“convergence”,I propose to(re-)evaluate/highlight the relevance of the thinking o...Faced with the challenge of arguments about the relation of post-,and trans-humanism,putting forth questions on their“antagonism”,or“convergence”,I propose to(re-)evaluate/highlight the relevance of the thinking of Michel Serres for posthuman debates.It specifically seems to me that Serresian idea of bodily hominescence can be read as a suggestion of“convergence”of post-and trans-humanism.Starting from the assumption that the body is a crucial node of both of them in that its consideration by one and the other marks a major front of their divergence(tool body according to transhumanism,dimensional body according to posthumanism),I seem to grasp,within the Serresian theme of the hominescent body as totipotent/virtual,the idea of bodily virtuality as a point of their convergence.Following Serres’s argument that,due to its virtuality/potentiality(intended as the totality of the possibilities),the body,though always involved in(technological)hybridization processes,is difficult to be artificially reproduced and to be reduced to information,I assume virtuality as an“operational concept”capable of“producing”convergence of post-and trans-humanism.Such a concept allows me,in fact,to read the body(re-)invested,by technology as an infiltrative agent,of a dimensional role as hybridizer(and in this sense normalized).Through virtuality,therefore,I think to be able to understand the body as a meeting ground between trans-and post-component,in the sense that technological“intervention”no longer constitutes an enhancement of the body,but a hybridizing event not implying dis-incarnation but rather normalization of body’s dimensional value;precisely such,due eminently to hybridization with otherness within a process of technological infiltration.The body normalized by such a technology is therefore a trans-posthuman body,in the sense of being contaminated by technological processes keeping it in its dimensionality.In order to better illustrate this idea,I propose to examine Serresian metaphor of the body as a trunk without branches with cultural cut twigs,which seems to me to effectively express the theme of the body as a ground/condition of hybridization,i.e.,as an anthropo-techno-poietic dimension.I aim so at showing the relevance of Serres’s thought to conceive,in a convergent perspective,a body,not to be strengthened,but to be normalized in its dimensionality,namely,a trans/posthuman body in a trans/posthumanist context.展开更多
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,a tripartite blanket of disease/containment/return to normality has crystallized around the virus.But is it possible to grasp the frayed shirt of this blanket and gradually...Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,a tripartite blanket of disease/containment/return to normality has crystallized around the virus.But is it possible to grasp the frayed shirt of this blanket and gradually try to undo it?This is the attempt that this contribution makes.And that,drawing on a toolbox made up of the reflections,in this case converging between them,of Michel Serres and the posthuman on the dynamics inventive of new homination horizons,which the virus,beyond the contingency of its pathogenicity,as a hopeful monster parasite,can trigger.展开更多
Faced with a socio-political-mediatic arena that continues to return the ballet of pandemic,climate change,fourth industrial revolution,sixth mass extinction,war etc.,the reflection of Michel Serres and Posthumanism p...Faced with a socio-political-mediatic arena that continues to return the ballet of pandemic,climate change,fourth industrial revolution,sixth mass extinction,war etc.,the reflection of Michel Serres and Posthumanism put forth instances for silencing of the anthropocentric logos,and for recognition of the multiplicity,variety,possibility of things and of the human in co-belonging with them,as well as instances for working on these same multiplicities,varieties,possibilities,that are often absences,black holes,repressed of philosophical thought.展开更多
The literary background of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go sets in a highly developed scientific and technological world where clones are created by human and“educated”in the Hailsham School for the sake of...The literary background of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go sets in a highly developed scientific and technological world where clones are created by human and“educated”in the Hailsham School for the sake of“donating”their vital organs to human three or four times before death.By depicting miserable fate of clones,the novel conveys deep concerns on the consequences of abusing technology in modern society.Ever since the burgeoning development of life science and artificial intelligence in the 1990s,the trend of posthumanism/transhumanism has emerged.Posthumanism promotes approaches to enhancing human body condition and organism,and extending human lifespan to augment human capacity and well-being by the advancement of technology.In literary field,contemplation on the relationship between human beings and technology has become a major concern of posthumanism.Putting Never Let Me Go in the context of posthumanism,this essay probes into the significant themes of the novel from three aspects:(1)clones’torments in the existential predicaments imposed by human;(2)human’s violation to the principles of bioethics causing the existential predicaments of alienated clones;(3)appealing to human to ruminate on the relationship between scientific technology and ethics.展开更多
Starting from the question of whether there is still a space for religious experience in posthumanist reflection,and if so,how this space can be configured,the contribution first examines nerve nodes/junctions,such as...Starting from the question of whether there is still a space for religious experience in posthumanist reflection,and if so,how this space can be configured,the contribution first examines nerve nodes/junctions,such as body/nudity,bonds/intersections,Biogea/Sciences of Life and Earth,in which the thought of Michel Serres,at the same time,is intertwined,so to speak,with the posthumanist one,and develops its Franciscanism.Through this analysis,the contribution opens itself the possibility of identifying/proposing,in an idea of religion(religio)as etymologically understood by Serres in the sense of bond/relationship/universal binder of livings(religare),humans and things,the space/justification of religious experience in and for the posthumanism.Mysticism of immanence within the Posthumanism?Maybe…But even further:the way is in fact that of bonding,inclusion,synthesis.展开更多
The essay presents a reflection on the current human condition,the novelty of which reveals itself to be an-already-always-been that continually begins and renews itself in the space of generative and inventive relati...The essay presents a reflection on the current human condition,the novelty of which reveals itself to be an-already-always-been that continually begins and renews itself in the space of generative and inventive relationality,expressed,in its toti-potentiality,by Posthumanism and by Michel Serres.In this horn of abundance,pre-existing and passing beyond form a single body,seeking their expression in an inchoative composed neologism as postranshominescent.展开更多
The contribution reflects on the crucial role that the body assumes in the context of the posthuman need/process of integral redefinition of the notion of the human.And,dialoguing,so to speak,even with positions from ...The contribution reflects on the crucial role that the body assumes in the context of the posthuman need/process of integral redefinition of the notion of the human.And,dialoguing,so to speak,even with positions from contemporary philosophical thought,such as those of Michel Serres,it specifically comes to highlight body characteristics of excess,unavoidability,reverberation.So:excess,in the sense that the body intentionally comes out of itself,hybridizing with the world and thus becoming a dimension of ontological,ethical,and cognitive construction of the human.Unavoidability,in the sense of the substantial irreproducibility-even in the context of technological hybridization-of the body,precisely by virtue of its anthropological dimensionality.Reverberation,in the sense that the body,as a dimensional space of redefinition/reconstruction of the human within the relationality with alterities,emerges as a reverberating mirror and catalyst of the posthumanist work of building a hybrid thought of(human)hybridization.展开更多
Michel Serres’s and Posthumanism’s reciprocally isomorphic reflections may offer not mainstream suggestions of an overall human repositioning,now,in times of war,pandemic/post-pandemic,environmental crisis,political...Michel Serres’s and Posthumanism’s reciprocally isomorphic reflections may offer not mainstream suggestions of an overall human repositioning,now,in times of war,pandemic/post-pandemic,environmental crisis,political,economic,and cultural problems,more mandatory than ever.If in fact,as it seems,it is question of de-anthropocentering/de-anthropomorphizing the world,to allow common principles and interrelationships between entities to emerge from within,Serresian and Posthumanist variations on the theme of the parasite/virus and the recognition of the world would provide profitable ideas on this way.展开更多
The contribution aims to examine the co-implications between Serres’work and posthumanist ideas of body and subjectivity.This scope is pursued primarily through the methodological choice of a gerund,such as silencing...The contribution aims to examine the co-implications between Serres’work and posthumanist ideas of body and subjectivity.This scope is pursued primarily through the methodological choice of a gerund,such as silencing,and the harnessing of its performative,processual,and relational value.Building on Serres’conception of silence as a dilation of the me the paper will follow Serresian anti-Cartesian reflections on the interchangeability of subject and object,his conception of the pre-positional body,and his thematization of the soul-body relationship.In close inter-implication with the employment of silencing is then the choice,again as a methodological device,of the preposition trans,made to act in order to explore the affinities/overlaps/assonances between Serres’theorization of the body,dimension of the human,and posthumanist conceptions of body/subjectivity.展开更多
This study critically examines the limitations of liberalism in effectively addressing the climate crisis,informed by Domenico Losurdo's critique and the lens of posthumanism.It illuminates the core liberal focus ...This study critically examines the limitations of liberalism in effectively addressing the climate crisis,informed by Domenico Losurdo's critique and the lens of posthumanism.It illuminates the core liberal focus on individual rights and autonomy,which stands in stark contrast with the collective,interconnected nature of global environmental challenges.Through a detailed engagement with Losurdo's analytical framework and posthumanist philosophy,the paper argues for a fundamental shift within liberal thought.This involves the incorporation of a robust environmental ethic and a commitment to global justice to reconcile the intrinsic values of liberalism with the urgent demands of environmental sustainability and collective action.The proposed reconfigured liberal philosophy seeks to combine its traditional strengths with a renewed focus on collective well-being,offering a more comprehensive and effective strategy for confronting the existential threat of the climate crisis.This study argues that such a reimagined liberal approach not only enhances its relevance in the face of global environmental challenges but also serves as a viable pathway toward promoting a more just and sustainable future.展开更多
Posthumanism has in the past few years been one of the most cutting-edge theoretical topics increasingly attracting the critical attention of scholars of both humanities and social sciences.The author holds that the r...Posthumanism has in the past few years been one of the most cutting-edge theoretical topics increasingly attracting the critical attention of scholars of both humanities and social sciences.The author holds that the rise of"posthumanism”in the West during the past decades indicates that in the present era,man,like those living animals and plants on the earth,is nothing but one of the species in nature,whose existence and development to a large extent depend on natural law.It is true that posthumanism came after the crisis of humanism,but it has continuity with and transcends over the latter.It informs us that over-evaluating the role of man is by no means adequate,for man has entered into a"posthuman"stage,in which man is no longer viewed as the only species that has rational thought,nor is he the head of all the species on the earth.But man can create various wonders,some of which are even beyond man's control.Although the rise of posthumanism has raised a severe challenge and even threat to traditional humanism and human existence,the author still hopefully finds some prospects for mankind,especially in current China where a sort of ecocivilization should be built up and digital humanities may well bridge up the gap between science and humanities.展开更多
This paper explores the evolution of landscape photography from its humanistic origins in the Renaissance to its transformation under the inAuence of posthuman culture in the digi-tal age.Initially an integral part of...This paper explores the evolution of landscape photography from its humanistic origins in the Renaissance to its transformation under the inAuence of posthuman culture in the digi-tal age.Initially an integral part of artistic and visual representation,landscape photography refected humanity's epistemological approach to objectifying nature through the"window perspective."With the rise of postmodernism,poststructuralism,and posthumanism,tradi-tional binaries such as authenticity versus falsity and nature versus artificiality have been deconstructed.Landscape photography now embraces simulacra and digital technology-driven expressions.This study examines how artificial intelligence,virtual reality,and other technologies reshape the meaning of landscape photography,and it highlights the aesthetic and critical potential of contemporary works by artists such as Yao Lu and Yang Yongliang within the broader context of visual culture.展开更多
文摘In the context of Michel Serres'and posthumanism's proposal of rethinking the human and the world in a perspective of universal co-belonging,silence(of the human word)assumes the function of a catalyst for the recognition of the human body in its aesthetic,cognitive,relational,and hybrid dimensionality,and of the world in its agency(including artistic).Within this framework,the contribution proposes a reading of art as a relation and catalyzer of relations,that is,as a(re)activation of positive relations of the human with a world that reveals itself to be increasingly hyper-complex.Taking Serresian ideas on artistic practices as not(only)human forms of expression and some posthumanist"isomorphic"positions on non-human agency as tools,the research then highlights the more-than-human scope of art.
文摘Faced with the challenge of arguments about the relation of post-,and trans-humanism,putting forth questions on their“antagonism”,or“convergence”,I propose to(re-)evaluate/highlight the relevance of the thinking of Michel Serres for posthuman debates.It specifically seems to me that Serresian idea of bodily hominescence can be read as a suggestion of“convergence”of post-and trans-humanism.Starting from the assumption that the body is a crucial node of both of them in that its consideration by one and the other marks a major front of their divergence(tool body according to transhumanism,dimensional body according to posthumanism),I seem to grasp,within the Serresian theme of the hominescent body as totipotent/virtual,the idea of bodily virtuality as a point of their convergence.Following Serres’s argument that,due to its virtuality/potentiality(intended as the totality of the possibilities),the body,though always involved in(technological)hybridization processes,is difficult to be artificially reproduced and to be reduced to information,I assume virtuality as an“operational concept”capable of“producing”convergence of post-and trans-humanism.Such a concept allows me,in fact,to read the body(re-)invested,by technology as an infiltrative agent,of a dimensional role as hybridizer(and in this sense normalized).Through virtuality,therefore,I think to be able to understand the body as a meeting ground between trans-and post-component,in the sense that technological“intervention”no longer constitutes an enhancement of the body,but a hybridizing event not implying dis-incarnation but rather normalization of body’s dimensional value;precisely such,due eminently to hybridization with otherness within a process of technological infiltration.The body normalized by such a technology is therefore a trans-posthuman body,in the sense of being contaminated by technological processes keeping it in its dimensionality.In order to better illustrate this idea,I propose to examine Serresian metaphor of the body as a trunk without branches with cultural cut twigs,which seems to me to effectively express the theme of the body as a ground/condition of hybridization,i.e.,as an anthropo-techno-poietic dimension.I aim so at showing the relevance of Serres’s thought to conceive,in a convergent perspective,a body,not to be strengthened,but to be normalized in its dimensionality,namely,a trans/posthuman body in a trans/posthumanist context.
文摘Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,a tripartite blanket of disease/containment/return to normality has crystallized around the virus.But is it possible to grasp the frayed shirt of this blanket and gradually try to undo it?This is the attempt that this contribution makes.And that,drawing on a toolbox made up of the reflections,in this case converging between them,of Michel Serres and the posthuman on the dynamics inventive of new homination horizons,which the virus,beyond the contingency of its pathogenicity,as a hopeful monster parasite,can trigger.
文摘Faced with a socio-political-mediatic arena that continues to return the ballet of pandemic,climate change,fourth industrial revolution,sixth mass extinction,war etc.,the reflection of Michel Serres and Posthumanism put forth instances for silencing of the anthropocentric logos,and for recognition of the multiplicity,variety,possibility of things and of the human in co-belonging with them,as well as instances for working on these same multiplicities,varieties,possibilities,that are often absences,black holes,repressed of philosophical thought.
文摘The literary background of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go sets in a highly developed scientific and technological world where clones are created by human and“educated”in the Hailsham School for the sake of“donating”their vital organs to human three or four times before death.By depicting miserable fate of clones,the novel conveys deep concerns on the consequences of abusing technology in modern society.Ever since the burgeoning development of life science and artificial intelligence in the 1990s,the trend of posthumanism/transhumanism has emerged.Posthumanism promotes approaches to enhancing human body condition and organism,and extending human lifespan to augment human capacity and well-being by the advancement of technology.In literary field,contemplation on the relationship between human beings and technology has become a major concern of posthumanism.Putting Never Let Me Go in the context of posthumanism,this essay probes into the significant themes of the novel from three aspects:(1)clones’torments in the existential predicaments imposed by human;(2)human’s violation to the principles of bioethics causing the existential predicaments of alienated clones;(3)appealing to human to ruminate on the relationship between scientific technology and ethics.
文摘Starting from the question of whether there is still a space for religious experience in posthumanist reflection,and if so,how this space can be configured,the contribution first examines nerve nodes/junctions,such as body/nudity,bonds/intersections,Biogea/Sciences of Life and Earth,in which the thought of Michel Serres,at the same time,is intertwined,so to speak,with the posthumanist one,and develops its Franciscanism.Through this analysis,the contribution opens itself the possibility of identifying/proposing,in an idea of religion(religio)as etymologically understood by Serres in the sense of bond/relationship/universal binder of livings(religare),humans and things,the space/justification of religious experience in and for the posthumanism.Mysticism of immanence within the Posthumanism?Maybe…But even further:the way is in fact that of bonding,inclusion,synthesis.
文摘The essay presents a reflection on the current human condition,the novelty of which reveals itself to be an-already-always-been that continually begins and renews itself in the space of generative and inventive relationality,expressed,in its toti-potentiality,by Posthumanism and by Michel Serres.In this horn of abundance,pre-existing and passing beyond form a single body,seeking their expression in an inchoative composed neologism as postranshominescent.
文摘The contribution reflects on the crucial role that the body assumes in the context of the posthuman need/process of integral redefinition of the notion of the human.And,dialoguing,so to speak,even with positions from contemporary philosophical thought,such as those of Michel Serres,it specifically comes to highlight body characteristics of excess,unavoidability,reverberation.So:excess,in the sense that the body intentionally comes out of itself,hybridizing with the world and thus becoming a dimension of ontological,ethical,and cognitive construction of the human.Unavoidability,in the sense of the substantial irreproducibility-even in the context of technological hybridization-of the body,precisely by virtue of its anthropological dimensionality.Reverberation,in the sense that the body,as a dimensional space of redefinition/reconstruction of the human within the relationality with alterities,emerges as a reverberating mirror and catalyst of the posthumanist work of building a hybrid thought of(human)hybridization.
文摘Michel Serres’s and Posthumanism’s reciprocally isomorphic reflections may offer not mainstream suggestions of an overall human repositioning,now,in times of war,pandemic/post-pandemic,environmental crisis,political,economic,and cultural problems,more mandatory than ever.If in fact,as it seems,it is question of de-anthropocentering/de-anthropomorphizing the world,to allow common principles and interrelationships between entities to emerge from within,Serresian and Posthumanist variations on the theme of the parasite/virus and the recognition of the world would provide profitable ideas on this way.
文摘The contribution aims to examine the co-implications between Serres’work and posthumanist ideas of body and subjectivity.This scope is pursued primarily through the methodological choice of a gerund,such as silencing,and the harnessing of its performative,processual,and relational value.Building on Serres’conception of silence as a dilation of the me the paper will follow Serresian anti-Cartesian reflections on the interchangeability of subject and object,his conception of the pre-positional body,and his thematization of the soul-body relationship.In close inter-implication with the employment of silencing is then the choice,again as a methodological device,of the preposition trans,made to act in order to explore the affinities/overlaps/assonances between Serres’theorization of the body,dimension of the human,and posthumanist conceptions of body/subjectivity.
文摘This study critically examines the limitations of liberalism in effectively addressing the climate crisis,informed by Domenico Losurdo's critique and the lens of posthumanism.It illuminates the core liberal focus on individual rights and autonomy,which stands in stark contrast with the collective,interconnected nature of global environmental challenges.Through a detailed engagement with Losurdo's analytical framework and posthumanist philosophy,the paper argues for a fundamental shift within liberal thought.This involves the incorporation of a robust environmental ethic and a commitment to global justice to reconcile the intrinsic values of liberalism with the urgent demands of environmental sustainability and collective action.The proposed reconfigured liberal philosophy seeks to combine its traditional strengths with a renewed focus on collective well-being,offering a more comprehensive and effective strategy for confronting the existential threat of the climate crisis.This study argues that such a reimagined liberal approach not only enhances its relevance in the face of global environmental challenges but also serves as a viable pathway toward promoting a more just and sustainable future.
文摘Posthumanism has in the past few years been one of the most cutting-edge theoretical topics increasingly attracting the critical attention of scholars of both humanities and social sciences.The author holds that the rise of"posthumanism”in the West during the past decades indicates that in the present era,man,like those living animals and plants on the earth,is nothing but one of the species in nature,whose existence and development to a large extent depend on natural law.It is true that posthumanism came after the crisis of humanism,but it has continuity with and transcends over the latter.It informs us that over-evaluating the role of man is by no means adequate,for man has entered into a"posthuman"stage,in which man is no longer viewed as the only species that has rational thought,nor is he the head of all the species on the earth.But man can create various wonders,some of which are even beyond man's control.Although the rise of posthumanism has raised a severe challenge and even threat to traditional humanism and human existence,the author still hopefully finds some prospects for mankind,especially in current China where a sort of ecocivilization should be built up and digital humanities may well bridge up the gap between science and humanities.
文摘This paper explores the evolution of landscape photography from its humanistic origins in the Renaissance to its transformation under the inAuence of posthuman culture in the digi-tal age.Initially an integral part of artistic and visual representation,landscape photography refected humanity's epistemological approach to objectifying nature through the"window perspective."With the rise of postmodernism,poststructuralism,and posthumanism,tradi-tional binaries such as authenticity versus falsity and nature versus artificiality have been deconstructed.Landscape photography now embraces simulacra and digital technology-driven expressions.This study examines how artificial intelligence,virtual reality,and other technologies reshape the meaning of landscape photography,and it highlights the aesthetic and critical potential of contemporary works by artists such as Yao Lu and Yang Yongliang within the broader context of visual culture.
