04 Inhuman Symposium - Reza Negarestani

Reza Negarestani: It Is Only What It Does: Selves, Agents, and Artifacts
Symposium Inhuman
25.05.15, 11.00 - 19.30
Participants:
Helen Hester, Rosi Braidotti, Johannes Paul Raether / Transformella, Reza Negarestani, Peter Wolfendale, François Laruelle
Technological advances, socioeconomic change, and new insights in neurology compel us to reassess our concept of human nature. The “Inhuman” symposium brings together a number of philosophical positions that question the basic assumptions of humanism. It presents current perspectives on human subjectivity and the body that do not rely on the figure of man, transcend biological and social determinations of gender and conceive the self as inherently and permanently mutable.
Within this context, fundamental doubts arise regarding the primacy of the human being, and we recognize the need to reflect upon matter independent of the human being and develop a new materialism.
Moderation: Anna Sailer

[@noiseforthealgorithm4668]

sure, I agree with whatever you just said

[@sydneysymposia]

The human makes itself practically according to concepts it has of itself, and in practically making itself, it changes the concepts of itself according to which it practically makes itself. Rinse and repeat. This talk was unnecessarily longwinded.

[@hb8213]

yea

[@StoneStraiff]

This is far too cerebral for me. I honestly have no clue what he is saying.

[@edthoreum7625]

4:30 ,,,?

[@dorismontello2000]

Geistig is to whip the wraith.

[@donq2957]

This guy would be a joke in Iran.

[@Ark-ky4of]

Right bro, as if you knew anything about Iran or philosophy for that matter.

[@donq2957]

@@Ark-ky4of How do you know I dont?

[@Ark-ky4of]

@@donq2957 Given your flippant dismissive knowing it all tone. Have you read intelligence and spirit? Do you know what sort of philosophical questions are at stake here?

[@donq2957]

@@Ark-ky4of I speak Persian and I know western philosophy is sophist crab. Thats what this guys sounds like. Iran has Sufi mysticism and thats whats still popular and respected above all else. So go fake yourself, you little sheet. . If any intellectuals did care about this in Iran, this guy wouldnt have to come to some depraved scientific materialist athiest sock socker land known as Western Jewdestan, where they invented Social Darwinism, Scientific Reductionism and now women with beards who think they are men giving birth to children.