My Reflection From the book Lyotard and the Inhuman: humanism, posthumanism, Inhuman

The book and the inhuman Lyotard explores the human condition. We questioned the beliefs about our identity as human beings. Who are we? What makes us truly human? Are we all human? Is there something inhuman in us? Is there a clear division between the human and inhuman? What effect does the progressive introduction of inhumanity in life? Is our close relationship with the inhuman through technology can transform human nature? Will we be human if it is "self" of humanity, whatever inhuman?

In "the inhuman", Lyotard reveals one of his suspicions: "What if" self "of the human species to be that is inherent inhumanity?". This suspicion is fully justified. Today nobody questions our reliance on technology for the maintenance and development of society. Technology is omnipresent in all areas of our life to the extent that we can not live without it completely. If there is a technological system failure would cause a collapse of our way of life.

At the invasiveness of the technology, we should unite their expansive nature and insatiable. The inhumanity is being introduced slowly in our bodies through technological advances in the field of medicine or bioengineering. Their ultimate goal is the replacement of our humanity for his inhumanity. It is a process that we are barely aware as a species. It is this process of removal and replacement of the "proper" human by "self" of inhumanity which draws attention to Jean François Lyotard. Their resistance led him to take a complaint of this process almost unstoppable in the heart of mankind.

Is being replaced by the inhumanity of humanity? The crisis of humanism as a metanarrative is behind the crisis of humanist values ​​in force in the West since the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism and the rise of alternative narrative account inhuman as the human condition. Lyotard speaks of a post-humanist society in which bursts with inhuman strength values ​​at the expense of the values ​​of humanism. Literally, the inhuman is close to the human to the point of being confused with him. This confusion is exploited by the technocracy to assault and seize political power in democracy. Power no longer resides in humanity's inhumanity but in the form of technology. Technocracy wants and must wrest power from democracy to realize this transformation of human nature in inhumanity.

There who, like Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant, encourages and sponsors the inhuman face of Jean François Lyotard's position that envisions a post-humanist humanism. Both approaches converge in their critique of humanism, focusing on different aspects. While Haraway and Plant celebrated the emergence of the inhuman in human life with the dissolution of the boundary between humans and machines through the creation of the figure of the cyborg in Donna Haraway or putting the Internet at Sadie Plant . Lyotard suggests the possibility of a post-humanist humanism in which human values ​​are no longer considered the standard to follow and are openly questioned, betting on a society where values ​​and ideals of humanism are viewed with skepticism.

Maria Dolores Fuentes

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