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Posthuman and the decline of the era of humanism

9 January, 2022

They say that we are being replaced by a completely different kind of man - posthumanism, with which the era of human exceptionalism ends. Who is a posthuman and how the concept of a person is changing now - this is the topic of this podcast.


Moderator:
Anton Kuznetsov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Participants:
Aya Kriman is a junior researcher at the Department of Philosophical Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, a conceptual artist.

Timecodes: 
00:00 - Introduction
01:24 - Discussion plan
02:24 - The main question of philosophy and human
03:38 - Human is an outdated concept
04:54 - Why is the posthuman "post"? Degradation of humanism
08:41 - Postmodern origins of the concept of the posthuman as a nomad
10:54 - A posthuman is a person without a rigid racial, gender or any other identity
13:14 - Digital as a continuation of subjectivity
14:35 - Are there any restrictions on identity in the concept of a posthuman
17:11 - Constant rethinking of the boundaries of identity and the Roman slave trader Anthony
19:41 - Intermediate result in the discussion of the concept of posthuman
20:42 - Posthuman as cyborg. Transhumanist as a screaming teenager
23:24 - The crisis of the humanistic ideal of human and posthumanism
25:50 - The beginning of the dispute about humanism and the secondary role of women
27:54 - The secondary position of women in Christianity
29:38 - The argument that the idea of the secondary nature of women is not a specific humanistic thesis
32:11 - The gap between humanistic ideals and practice
33:31 - Interim outcome of the dispute
33:52 - The existence of the human ideal is the main thesis of humanism
34:49 - A dispute about the humanism of Nazism. The degeneration of humanism
36:03 - Continuation of the dispute. The connection of the humanistic ideal of man with humanity.
40:13 - Why the table is a horse
43:51 - Has the era of posthumanism come now? Posthuman - humanity without an ideal
47:33 - Posthumanism as an inclusive practice
49:15 - The end of obsession with humanity and the change of the main question of philosophy
51:04 - The posthuman does not live in human society, but with everything at once. Overcoming classical binary differences
52:27 - We have always been, are and will be posthuman
54:53 - Can posthumanism degenerate in the same way as humanism?
57:10 - Summary

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