Posthumanism Explained - Nietzsche, Deleuze, Stiegler, Haraway

This is the prophesied follow-up to my fastpunch through humanism, covering some 20th century reactions to humanist thought. I hypothesize that we're at something of a standoff between humanism and posthumanism, as our political and educational institutions are struggling to terms with changing technical contexts.



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Addendum: Sometimes posthumanism is confused with transhumanism, which I had planned to cover in this video but it was getting too long. Transhumanism is often humanistic in that it privileges the same capacities that humanism does--intellect, memory, progress, consciousness--and proposes that our bodies can be technologically or genetically augmented to improve these capacities in new stages of human develepment-- uploading our consciousness into the cloud or staving off mortality. Posthumanists, by and large, tend to de-emphasize the supposed value of those ends in the first place, although there is some overlap

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Sources Used:
Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (https://amzn.to/37GFyw7) and Human, All Too Human (https://amzn.to/2OQsdbQ)
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (https://amzn.to/33l4AgP)
Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time (https://amzn.to/2qQoJOF)
Donna Haraway (https://amzn.to/2pPVxqy)


Timecode:


0:00 Introduction
2:03 Nietzsche and Will to Power
5:48 Deleuze and Immanence
8:34 We're already Cyborgs
9:34 Technological Posthumanism
14:29 Posthumanism vs Humanism