An interesting text of François Laruelle (1980) on Nietzsche, biopolitics, the post/transhuman, becoming “our own guinea pigs”, and the “superior form of racism” denuded of its transcendent racist forms, along with the status of non-biotechnical Minoritieshttps://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/new-translation-of-francois-laruelles-homo-ex-machina-1980/ …
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Replying to @theory_talk
curious how banal and mistaken Laurelle’s use of race is, as if he doesn’t know what a species is
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Replying to @sz_duras
It’s the question of that of which a species is capable taken to its “limit”
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sure instead of racism, you get a new species, species is a concept without the stupidities that are an unavoidable aspect of race
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Replying to @sz_duras
Yes, I think too that the notion of species/race becomes vicedicted or different/ciated (as Deleuze might say) via the tightrope that man is between ape and übermensch (as Nietzsche would say). I like how Pierre Boudot points out that the “über” here means trans-, not over/super.
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its a commonn musunderstanding of evolutionary science that what we sentient human beings evolve into will be more intelligent, perhaps more sentient, whilst post/trans/uber may imply that. Evolutionary science does not...
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Yes, you’re right, this is that tightrope Nietzsche mentions, and that the über- is on its diametrical opposite side anchored by the ultima, the “last man”
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