Mycology in Contemporary Social, Political, and Philosophical Practices
#mycology #philosophy #politics #ecology #multispecies
#posthumanism #socialmovements
#environmentaljustice
Mycology in Contemporary Social, Political, and Philosophical Practices
#mycology #philosophy #politics #ecology #multispecies
#posthumanism #socialmovements
#environmentaljustice
Suppose humans finally got around to figuring out intelligent communications with animal species other than themselves, and started teaching the animals science, tech, engineering, arts, math, philosophy, etc. What animal species do you think would suit this task particularly well, and why would that be?
Just finished listening to Ilia Delio’s Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion using #Paper2Audio. She frames AI as part of evolution’s “techne” and argues religion (as tethering to the whole) has to evolve too. I’m intrigued, though some claims feel like a stretch, especially around “God participating” in creation. Still, the posthuman relational angle stuck with me.
#ReEnchantingTheEarth #IliaDelio #AI #Religion #ProcessTheology #TeilhardDeChardin #Posthumanism #Ecology #Cyborg #Noosphere
Symposium "Performing Ends"
28–30 October 2026
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Deadline: 1 December 2025
👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-symposium-performing-ends/
#performingarts #performancestudies #performanceresearch #posthumanism #collaborativetheatre
"Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to continue, it’s natural to wonder whether they care about human lives.
The earnest, in-depth answer to this question is just as bleak as the glib one. As moral philosopher Émile Torres argues, many Silicon Valley leaders embrace a vision of a transhumanist future in which biological humans will be replaced by digital beings endowed with superintelligence. This vision helps explain their obsession with artificial general intelligence (AGI) and sits at the core of what Torres describes as human extinctionist preferences.
In 2023, Torres and his colleague Timnit Gebru coined the acronym TESCREAL to describe a constellation of ideologies — Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism — that have become highly influential within Silicon Valley. Torres is a philosopher, intellectual historian, and journalist whose work focuses on the ethics of emerging technologies, particularly AI and human extinction.
In this conversation with journalist Doug Henwood recorded for the Jacobin podcast Behind the News, Torres explains the TESCREAL worldview, its connections to eugenics and IQ realism, and why figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman embrace visions of a post-human future."
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/musk-thiel-altman-ai-tescrealism/
#BigTech #AI #AGI #TESCREAL #SuperIntelligence #PostHumanism