As a consequence of yet another conversation with yet another creative person I know who was just laid off (this one from Wired Magazine), I was up late playing pedal steel slide and thinking gee I'm glad I'm halfway good at something that can't be easily stolen from me. I got in the mind of Hannah Arendt talking about what bad sorts of things can happen in societies when people are made to feel superfluous, so I randomly googled "human superfluity," which led me to this guy's book and his blog post of today. I can't claim to fully understand it, because I don't speak phillsophese or Serbian for that matter, but he's definitely onto something in part two.
>> It is no longer an ontology with the concepts of being, essence, being, substance and subject, but rather a realized cybernetics that replaces creativity with the techno-genesis of the technosphere beyond the boundaries of the human-non-human distinction. Thus, art and aesthetics become precisely the aestheticization and visualization of events, and man is no longer determined from the essence of language as animal rationale , nor as Dasein in Heidegger, but as homo kybernetes who has become an actor/interactor of the technosphere network.
Also:
>>Aestheticization and visualization: Art is no longer an autonomous sphere of the spirit; it has been transformed into the aestheticization and visualization of events within an interface. The image loses its aura and becomes operational data.
The transformation of man: Man is no longer a being of language or Heidegger's Dasein (being-there). He becomes Homo kybernetes – a mere node, actor or interactor within an all-encompassing digital network.
Mind you, I think his conclusions are both hideous and trite, and a grossly similar rehashing of Marinetti's Futurism, which is a shame considering that his thesis begins pretty well. Still, here we are, and at least he's attempting to build a framework for it, so I thought it worth a share.
>> It is no longer an ontology with the concepts of being, essence, being, substance and subject, but rather a realized cybernetics that replaces creativity with the techno-genesis of the technosphere beyond the boundaries of the human-non-human distinction. Thus, art and aesthetics become precisely the aestheticization and visualization of events, and man is no longer determined from the essence of language as animal rationale , nor as Dasein in Heidegger, but as homo kybernetes who has become an actor/interactor of the technosphere network.
Also:
>>Aestheticization and visualization: Art is no longer an autonomous sphere of the spirit; it has been transformed into the aestheticization and visualization of events within an interface. The image loses its aura and becomes operational data.
The transformation of man: Man is no longer a being of language or Heidegger's Dasein (being-there). He becomes Homo kybernetes – a mere node, actor or interactor within an all-encompassing digital network.
Mind you, I think his conclusions are both hideous and trite, and a grossly similar rehashing of Marinetti's Futurism, which is a shame considering that his thesis begins pretty well. Still, here we are, and at least he's attempting to build a framework for it, so I thought it worth a share.