posthuman


1996
Metal switch, wig tape

‘The switch was worn day and night for close to a month.’



“More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.”

Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983


The nature caused by human culture.

“There may even come a moment that our connection with an industrially manufactured coke bottle may be richer and more mythical than our relation with a genetically analyzed and manipulated rabbit in the woods. “

the ne plus ultra project: good memes for better genes


“…you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence, and the gift of revulsion against its implications…”

MIT neuroengineers’ pulsing light silences overactive neurons


unprecedented, precise programming of neuronal activity

Dr. Michio Kaku | Theoretical Physicist. Author. Professor.


New Discovery Series – 2057>



“One must free oneself from one’s ideas in writing, not take charge of them. One must free language from its purpose, free concepts from their meaning, free the world from its reality — which is an even greater illusion.”

Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, Verso Radical Thinkers edition, London, 2007, p. 50

The Krokers

“The speed of technological change is transforming contemporary society. In a global culture driven forward by dramatic developments in technology, seemingly no aspect of politics, culture and society is left undisturbed.”

DisLoc Research Department

THE WORLD COMMISSION ON GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITY

“We conclude that the question is no longer whether a fundamental change is coming, but whether the change will be for the better or for the worse, when it will be coming and at what price. The sooner we pave the way to positive change, the less traumatic will be the transformation and the smaller its human, economic and ecological cost. All of us now share the responsibility of realizing that we live at the tipping point of contemporary civilization and for recognizing that informed thinking and responsible acting are needed to bring us to the threshold of a civilization that is truly peaceful and sustainable.”- Budapest Declaration, Dec. 20, 2004

“…at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.”

The Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University