White and Black Posthumanism After Consciousness and the Unconscious
At present, the posthuman is normally understood as a being which will arise out of man by means of drastic physical or just functional modifications and which due to these changes will seem no longer to be justifiably termed human (see chapters 1 and 2.
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TRACE Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution A Series by the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Edited by
Gerhard Blechinger
Scientific Advisory Board
Thomas Grunwald Martin Kurthen Heiner Miihlmann
Martin Kurthen
White and Black Posthumanism After Consciousness and the Unconscious
Translated from the German by
Robert Payne
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Martin Kurthen
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .......... . . . . . . . . ......
1
1.
No Answer to the Question: What is (Post-)human?
7
2.
The Good Posthuman from California
3.
The Non-human Interfaces of the Real, Symbolic and Imaginary
17
4. 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5
From the Nether Regions into Positivity The Ubiquitous Loss of th e Nexus. . . . . . . . .. The Illusion of the Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Under the 'Shroud of the Hidden Sense' . . . . . . . . . . . .. Positive Signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Th e Rectified Drive of the Puppets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
23 23 39 41 51 59
5. 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4
Forwards to Nature The Tertiary Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. The Possibility of Natural Intelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . .. No more Need for Bodies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black Posthumanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
69 69 76 87 95
6. 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4
Consciousness and the Unconscious - A Package Deal Consciousness that comes to be ................. deserves to perish wretchedly A Last Subject. Objective Enjoyment
98 98 110 121 127
7.
Hermetics as a Medium
135
. . . .. 10
References
145
About the Author
159
Foreword
At present, the posthuman is normally understood as a being which will arise out of man by means of drastic physical or just functional modifications and which due to these changes will seem no longer to be justifiably termed human (see chapters 1 and 2.). It is generally assumed that the alterations required for this will, (1) not oc
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