by Carl Gustav and Maria Odete Madeira
" 'To humanize oneself is to universalize oneself from within', they say. Hasn't the universality of the extermination of bodies as well as of the environment, from AUSCHWITZ to CHERNOBYL, succeeded in dehumanizing us from without by shattering our ethic and aesthetic bearings, our very perception of our surroundings?"
Virilo, Art and Fear
The gap between human and transhuman has been defined by the passing of a border, a border of the flesh and of the blood, of the idea of humanity, such passing is a passing by and a passing over, once the human passes over towards the extreme social Darwinism and Nazi-based ideology of the transhuman, where the first step in the wake of the human is the expectancy of that which is to be born – the inhuman.
Transhuman skills that glorify the instrumental, the superficiality... the superficiality of surfaces, the superficiality of thinking, the superficiality of a humanity to be the object of a genocide.
Transhuman skills in an inhuman or subhuman mind. Insane mind in a sane body.
The transhuman, faking an ideological basis upon a humanism or even upon a technologically enlightened humanism, distorts and defiles the right of self-determination, it does not defend the elevation of an idea of good founded in values of generosity, compassion, empathy, dignity, freedom and autonomy, rather it defends a genocide of the weak, be it by natural selection or by a social selection in which the access to resources is denied to them.
The neo-fascist utopia where the cultural institutions, themselves, become the object of a cultural Darwinism, a selection process where they are to be judged according to the utility of circumstance. No values but the use and abuse of the human by a post-humane cannibalistic zombie.
Quoting a transhumanist: "I have never understood busybodies who think it is up to them to decide who can live on this planet. If some people are "unfit," they will not survive (...)"http://www.geniebusters.org/33_postnazi.html
This, survival of the fittest, social Darwinism is, of course, not generally based upon a natural selection but upon a social one, based upon a difference between those that can afford to be good-looking monsters and those that cannot afford or refuse to be so.
Not as much a matter of bettering the human, but a matter of monstratively instrumentalising the flesh as meat to feed a pornographic industry of monstration, that produces monsters and markets them.
The transhuman monster is not a monster because of the biological differences, those are surface effects, he is a monster whenever the inhuman border is crossed, whenever fundamental elements of humanity become nuisance, ethical noise to be relativised due to an ideological commitment to a subhuman inhumanity.
These transhuman ideologists are already not human anymore. They have become already subhuman pornographers, because even without prosthetics they have already given up that which makes them human, they have already crossed the border and embraced the social Darwinistic and Nazi-based monstrative thinking whose pre-condition of acceptance is the acceptance of the negation of the idea of humanity.
" 'To humanize oneself is to universalize oneself from within', they say. Hasn't the universality of the extermination of bodies as well as of the environment, from AUSCHWITZ to CHERNOBYL, succeeded in dehumanizing us from without by shattering our ethic and aesthetic bearings, our very perception of our surroundings?"
Virilo, Art and Fear
The gap between human and transhuman has been defined by the passing of a border, a border of the flesh and of the blood, of the idea of humanity, such passing is a passing by and a passing over, once the human passes over towards the extreme social Darwinism and Nazi-based ideology of the transhuman, where the first step in the wake of the human is the expectancy of that which is to be born – the inhuman.
Transhuman skills that glorify the instrumental, the superficiality... the superficiality of surfaces, the superficiality of thinking, the superficiality of a humanity to be the object of a genocide.
Transhuman skills in an inhuman or subhuman mind. Insane mind in a sane body.
The transhuman, faking an ideological basis upon a humanism or even upon a technologically enlightened humanism, distorts and defiles the right of self-determination, it does not defend the elevation of an idea of good founded in values of generosity, compassion, empathy, dignity, freedom and autonomy, rather it defends a genocide of the weak, be it by natural selection or by a social selection in which the access to resources is denied to them.
The neo-fascist utopia where the cultural institutions, themselves, become the object of a cultural Darwinism, a selection process where they are to be judged according to the utility of circumstance. No values but the use and abuse of the human by a post-humane cannibalistic zombie.
Quoting a transhumanist: "I have never understood busybodies who think it is up to them to decide who can live on this planet. If some people are "unfit," they will not survive (...)"http://www.geniebusters.org/33_postnazi.html
This, survival of the fittest, social Darwinism is, of course, not generally based upon a natural selection but upon a social one, based upon a difference between those that can afford to be good-looking monsters and those that cannot afford or refuse to be so.
Not as much a matter of bettering the human, but a matter of monstratively instrumentalising the flesh as meat to feed a pornographic industry of monstration, that produces monsters and markets them.
The transhuman monster is not a monster because of the biological differences, those are surface effects, he is a monster whenever the inhuman border is crossed, whenever fundamental elements of humanity become nuisance, ethical noise to be relativised due to an ideological commitment to a subhuman inhumanity.
These transhuman ideologists are already not human anymore. They have become already subhuman pornographers, because even without prosthetics they have already given up that which makes them human, they have already crossed the border and embraced the social Darwinistic and Nazi-based monstrative thinking whose pre-condition of acceptance is the acceptance of the negation of the idea of humanity.
