Becoming Presentation IV (Sextant Publishing, 2010) AA.VV. edited by Riccardo Campa
Gianni Vattimo, Max More, Remi Sussan, Riccardo Campa, Aldo Schiavone, Luciano Pelicans, Roberto Marchesini, Salvatore Rampone, Ugo Spezza, Mario Pire, Stefano Vaj, Francesco Boco, Emmanuel Pilli, Roberto Guerra.
The dominant theme of the fourth volume of Becoming is the break with humanism, religious but not only, that characterizes our technological age. The issue is addressed from various angles, most of the articles, and in many cases is found pre-Renaissance and Renaissance humanism - his close relationship with the greek-roman paganism - a turning point in the path that allows us today to reflect on a possible future posthuman.
The number, edited by sociologist Richard Campa, also stands out for the prestigious brands that contribute to this new exploration of the linkages between technology and the posthuman. It begins with a fine essay by Luciano Pelicans, one of the most translated Italian sociologists abroad for many years the Italian Socialist Party ideologue and head of Mondoperaio. "Science and Nature" reveals the incompatibility of "physiological" between the principles of scientific rationalism and provvidenzialistica vision of reality which we inherited from Judeo-Christianity, and connects the birth of civilization of machines an excess of religious humanism.
The essay that follows, always in the news, is another intellectual who needs no introduction: Gianni Vattimo - perhaps the best known Italian philosopher living in the world. Thinking weak theoretical and authoritative interpreter of Nietzsche, has always been politically involved too, having been elected three times in the European Parliament, with three different parties of the left. In the essay "The crisis of humanism" again after the death of God to understand the process that has taken central man, the age of technology.
Next come Roberto Marchesini, a scholar of science and epistemology, to become well known to readers as the author of popular books such as Posthuman. Towards new models of existence and purpose of man. In "Subjectivity and ontopoiesi" explores the ontological and anthropological mutation that hit the man over the last fifty years later to the development of technology, with the transition from a conception of "individual" to a "multividuale" being. And he warns that the multividuo can not be understood in a humanistic focus, still centered on the concept of individual identity, but rather with a view postumanistica.
"Beyond the species" is a masterful contribution to the posthuman reflection on the transformation of another leading intellectual of the Italian left: Aldo Schiavone. Director of Italian Institute of Human Sciences and former director of the prestigious Istituto Gramsci, and collaborator of many years of daily newspaper La Repubblica, in 2007, Schiavone has published history and destiny - a true manifesto of the new technological humanism. The essay published here represents an excerpt.
The massmediology Mario Pireddu - IULM professor at the University of Milan and editor of the book Post-Human. Relationship between man and technology in the network society - in his essay "The aroma of the recent past", examines the crisis of the European left in the background of the network society, especially highlighting the difficulties of identity and communication of social democratic and progressive forces. It is essentially an invitation to greater open-mindedness, also taking into account the insights of the future, to regenerate on a new footing.
The last speech to the News section is bioinformatics Salvatore Rampone that shows how the technologies of human enhancement - in particular, substances such as Viagra, testosterone and Provigil - creating a situation of dependence for consumers, but at the same time shows that it is perfectly understandable that those who go to performance "superhuman "a sexual level, muscular and intellectual, does not want to go back to human conditions. It is now time to "Dependencies transhuman".
In the opening section of the Genealogy, is a long essay by Riccardo Campa entitled "The pagan roots of the revolution biopolitics", where tension towards posthuman that the extraordinary development of technology in the contemporary era conveys is genetically traced back to the values \u200b\u200bof greek and Roman paganism. This is a study complementary to what is referred to as a masterpiece of historical sociology: The roots of pagan Europe Luciano Pelicans.
follows the rate of the founder of Extropian world, the philosopher Max More, who defends the thesis of a direct filiation of transhumanism by Nietzschean superhuman, referring also to their biographical and clarifying that democratic and utilitarian moral - elements absent in the philosophy Nietzsche - are essential elements of transhumanism. The title could not be clearer: "The superhuman in transhuman".
Rémi Sussan The famous French journalist, an expert on new technologies, instead track the lineage that combines "Transhumanism and obscurity" and, therefore, links the new post-human philosophy of mystical currents of pagan Late Hellenism, revitalized and reintroduced into Europe's cultural fabric since the Renaissance.
The futurist poet Roberto Guerra instead devotes an article Karl Marx, recovering as the pioneer of the new future "scientific" as a way of thinking to improve the company's industrial machine - car mechanics and electronics in the past to the present. So, Marx is no longer ideology of communism, but "Marx, the futurist."
Pilia Emmanuele The young architect, art director of Becoming, put your signature at the bottom to "A perpetual ruin." The paper questions the ability of the transhumanist movement to collect the inheritance of certain situations and instances anarcho-socialist, in order to reconstruct society on new bases, taking the Homo Ludens Huizinga's paradigm as the next step in human evolution, but let you feel the humanity in all its current ruinous beauty.
Futurology For the section, the computer journalist Hugh Break follows the recent development of information technology in the essay "The Evolution of Net-ball, then tracing the lines of what could be the future development of computers, phones and new electronic devices.
Same section, the young philosopher Francesco Boco proposes a review of the film Avatar - "The temptation-historical" - which examines the work of Cameron in its ideological dimension in delivering messages Luddites. In the film, the characters "positive" because they live in a world-historic and primitive, or use technology to escape the technology to escape the dynamic world, history, always changing from forged European Promethean spirit.
As always, the volume closes the Library section, where you will find a review of the new book by Stefano Vaj Riccardo Campa: Change or die. The challenge of transhumanism. In the article, significantly entitled "The Action transhumanism," Vaj highlights in particular the voluntary spirit that permeates the work, unless you give never take for granted the coming of a posthuman future, but it is framed as a possible historical event bound to the commitment of generations.
COMPLETE ARTICLE (from Counterculture)
http://guide.supereva.it/controcultura/interventi/2010/05/divenire-postumani-gianni-vattimo-ei-futuribili
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