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The Immanent, the Generic and the Transhuman: A
Non-standard Approach
Jan 16, 2022
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Non-standard philosophical analysis acknowledges that philosophy has become a machine of repetitive thinking, that is using an obsolete calculus of knowledge rendering it unable to evolve the thought-world matrix it had created in the first place, therefore it needs a change of posture-in-thought. Non-standard philosophy questions this sterility that produces knowledge based on binary distinctions conveyed within philosophy as obstacles to political, social, and human development. Attempting to confront any dominant philosophy on its own turf and terms always leads to an impasse, because the proponents of a well- entrenched philosophical vocabulary long used and respected expect any challenge to be articulated in the already established rulebook which ultimately aims to subject any attempt of rebellion against its reign back into the dominant philosophical fold. The problem is not only restricted to the deployment of critical theories and philosophical vocabularies in the form of discursive academic practice alone but concerns all forms of democratic practices and more broadly speaking the societal body. The goal of this lecture is to analyze transhumanism and transhumanist thought, as well as posthumanism, as the latest attempts that challenge the dominant philosophical humanist discourse inside a longstanding tradition of philosophical auto-positioning coups under the guise of humanist liberation and progress. In addition, the concept of the posthuman when looked at from both transhumanist thought and posthumanist critique undermines the traditional philosophical exceptionalism of the human, thus, rendering the latter vulnerable to philosophical subversion that attempts to capture and clone the Real or Man under new conceptual structures such as that of the posthuman and new categories of knowledge such as transhumanism and posthumanism. In this vein, philosophy and its latest humanist iteration transhumanism carry on with the creation of speculative imagery of man that does not really know Man-in-Person (Homme-en-personne), who remains a stranger not only to the ensemble of the (human) sciences but also to totality of thought itself as exemplified by innumerable philosophical practices and decisions.
(Jordanco
Sekulovski
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