From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sat Aug 07 1999 - 11:25:46 MDT
On Saturday, August 07, 1999 12:46 AM Brian Manning Delaney
<b-delaney@uchicago.edu>
> I recently had another "What's the Hell's up with this 'post-humanism'
> business?!" discussion with some friends of mine who are academics in the
> humanities. Many of them are technophobes, or simply unimaginative when it
comes
> to the possibilities of human transformation. But their objections to the
term
> "post-humanism" I share. I'm curious what others on this list think about
the
> following.
Funny you should bring this up. A few years ago in _KaspahRaster_
(http://www.teleport.com/~jaheriot/kr.htm), there was a debate along the
same lines after my "What is posthumanism?" was published there.
The debate came down to John J. Funk stating that "posthumanism" is
"posthuman--ism" NOT "post--humanism." Note the difference in stress.
I tend to think I'd rather have a term that is accurate and shocks some
people than a watered down term that is clunking and hard to pronounce --
merely to try to get some crypto-luddite professors signed on. Most likely
your academics won't be so easily fooled into accepting our ideas.
And do we need them onboard?
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
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