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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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.?
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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