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Pill Pod 76 - Posthumanism is Good Actually Vol. 1
🕑 Added 2022-04-15 21:22:58 +0000 UTCErik and Pills cover posthumanism in the context of systems theory and what makes it a viable model as an alternative to humanist explanatory frameworks of how society functions. We reference Niklas Luhmann (https://amzn.to/3ObXyUq) quite a few times as well as Francesca Ferrando's "Philosophical Posthumanism" (https://amzn.to/3rtH8Nv).
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Dalia
I agree with most of what Luhmann says (and his posthuman viewpoint), but I struggle to like it, or in other words, I struggle to deduce a vision of a better world from it. Luhmann's system theory is descriptive. His theory does not give us advice on what to do. It does not even criticize; it just describes and avoids morality. It tells us, "you can not direct anything. You can try to irritate, but how a system will adapt is uncertain." That is kind of depressing and pacifying. To change a system, we need a virus, I guess, but we will not foresee what will happen. I think morality can act like a virus but is primarily negative.
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Yea it was not in social systems, I believe it was in the 90s but Google was no help. IIRC he said galileo, darwin, freud were the 3 great insults, and systems theory was the fourth.
F
I’ve been really enjoying this series guys so thank you. I was wondering if you remember the source in which the Galileo/Copernicus - Darwin - Marx - Freud posthumanist or anti humanist lineage was laid out? I think you said it was in Luhmann (can’t quite remember as I listened a week or so ago) but I can’t find it in ‘Social Systems’ or Ferrando’s text either.
