Micheal Guest wrote:
>Isn't there also a question of accessing a form of (human) reality in
>the absence of the body, in the way, say, that Lyotard suggests in _The
>Inhuman_ - with the possibility of a trajectory of history and
>technology extending beyond the life of the sun? Or the kind of reality
>of blind vision generated inside Virilio's "vision machine"? X-file
>space-creatures rather more personify the human, I suspect, than
>evidence an extra-human reality. I thought that systems of discourse >and power were the original "inhuman" - producing the "human" with its >warm and runny connotations (ideological functions). The word is too
>saturated with such connotations to entertain with much seriousness the
>axiom "all reality is human."
Diane nods vigorously.
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>Isn't there also a question of accessing a form of (human) reality in
>the absence of the body, in the way, say, that Lyotard suggests in _The
>Inhuman_ - with the possibility of a trajectory of history and
>technology extending beyond the life of the sun? Or the kind of reality
>of blind vision generated inside Virilio's "vision machine"? X-file
>space-creatures rather more personify the human, I suspect, than
>evidence an extra-human reality. I thought that systems of discourse >and power were the original "inhuman" - producing the "human" with its >warm and runny connotations (ideological functions). The word is too
>saturated with such connotations to entertain with much seriousness the
>axiom "all reality is human."
Diane nods vigorously.
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