PhD student writing on Thomas Pynchon and the Posthuman Gothic. Literary & critical theory, aesthetics, ecology. All views are my own, etc. 
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Negarestani on the task of any true humanism: not the maintenance of a fixed form, but a perpetual revision and expansion of that form. The human is “not simply a given fact that is behind us,” but a process “whose aim is to unlock new abilities of saying and doing.”pic.twitter.com/fjswofWhHc
“Antihumanism and conservative humanism” are both insufficient to this task: one is “an account of a present that must preserve the traits of the past, the other an account of a present that must approach the future while remaining anchored in the past.”pic.twitter.com/iwKY2lwtDp
What Negarestani calls inhumanism is the commitment to this revisionist program, and to the reason which drives it. “Every portrait [of humanity] drawn is washed away by the revisionary power of reason, giving way to more subtle portraits.”pic.twitter.com/BZ2tnvKc4S
Although committed to the human, inhumanism could not be further from old humanism: it’s progress is bound only to reason itself. This “rational agency is not personal, individual, or even necessarily biological.” The labour of the inhuman works on us, yet is not reducible to us.pic.twitter.com/1Z9VRmCRDg
Though there are lots of problems with Reza's position, which I analyse here via the normative functionalist position that informs it. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303338871_On_Reason_and_Spectral_Machines_Robert_Brandom_and_Bounded_Posthumanism …'
Excellent, I’ll have to give it a read.
It's included in https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/philosophy_after_nature/3-156-fc110b09-5c48-4e72-841b-b8f78237ec23 … As I say, it has normative functionalism in its sights more than L/Acc as such
source? :-)
“The Labour of the Inhuman” in #ACCELERATE (Urbanomic 2014).
thank you!
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