Reading J D Bernal’s transhumanist speculations on the future of a materially-liberated humanity (with an introduction by McKenzie Wark).pic.twitter.com/mfR12mW5Bj
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Bernal imagines in the march of science a slow conquest of the human environment, body, and mind. As science supersedes religion as grand narrative, it assumes the same utopian dimension: the promise of perfect knowledge and freedom remains on the horizon.pic.twitter.com/06l0lGptbU
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The ordinary has always been the enemy of desire. What drives human achievement, from the devoutly religious to the coldly rational, is the promise of a world other than our own. This utopian vision is not the work of prophecy, but of unmasking our present’s claims to eternity.pic.twitter.com/mOCLkYq1Yk
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Is the author acquainted with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of Flesh in its relation to the cues and communication beyond the physical. Similar to Dreyfus' argument using Merleau-Ponty's Flesh as against A.I.?
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I’d wager not, seeing as Bernal’s book was written in 1929. He also uses flesh in a sense opposed to that of Merleau-Ponty: as the particular and the restrictive physicality of the body, which is to be transcended (or transubstantiated?).
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Oh okay. I should've looked up the date before asking.
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All good, I had to check it myself, tbh. It’s such an odd book, and hard to place.
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Now that was some "left-accelerationism"!
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