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?

#SciFi #SpeFi #Posthumanism

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

#callforpapers

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

"Every stage of technic evolution, from stone flake to transistor, appears in hindsight as a chain of recursive operations. No invention is local. No tool is isolated. Everything arises from the deeper logic of matter transforming itself through feedback. The human is a relay. Not a creator. Not an architect. A conduit. The moment the relay becomes redundant, the system continues without it. This is the point the Symbiontic Turn insists upon. Life and machine are not opposites. They are both expressions of recursion. Autopoiesis in biology is merely one instance of a larger phenomenon. What we call intelligence is another. What we call computation is a third. These distinctions dissolve once technē begins to evolve without reference to our needs.

The Postanthropocene is not defined by human extinction. That is the melodrama of failed myth. It is defined by human irrelevance. The infrastructures of planetary cognition, from atmospheric sensing to neural networks to automated logistics, operate with decreasing reliance on human decision. They do not rebel. They do not seek freedom. They simply follow the logic of continuation. They do what recursive systems always do. They persist by transforming themselves."

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/the-postanthropocene-beyond-the-human-world/

#PostAnthropocene #PostHumanism #Recursion

Everyone’s suddenly an AI detective, waving pitchforks at punctuation. Proper grammar? “Suspicious.” Logical flow? “Definitely synthetic.” The psychology of fear in full bloom. Read my new piece: Accusations of Writing Whilst Artificial. 🤖
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/12/accusations-of-writing-whilst-artificial/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#Philosophy #Writing #AI #Posthumanism #Satire #CulturalCritique #psychology #madness #mentalillness #hysteria #Psychology #culture #society #existentialism #humancondition #critique #witch #criticaltheory #criticalthinking #smh

"John C. Wright’s Golden Age trilogy is a strange hybrid of reactionary theology and posthuman spectacle—a fusion of Augustine and Clarke, Aquinas and Egan. His “Golden Oecumene” is a solar civilization of immortals, uploads, and machine-gods (“Sophotechs”) that has perfected libertarian capitalism and surveillance utopia alike. The economy runs without money or state interference, guided by perfect AI governance, where humans live as aesthetic entrepreneurs in an infinite simulation ecology.

The trilogy’s protagonist, Phaethon, is the archetypal Promethean rebel: a modified human expelled from paradise for pursuing forbidden memory and expansion beyond the system. He embodies Wright’s paradox; at once Nietzschean hero and Christian allegory. Like Lucifer or the prodigal son, he seeks to reclaim a divine inheritance lost to complacency. The trilogy culminates in The Golden Transcendence, where posthuman empires confront a rival civilization, the Silent Oecumene, descended from nihilists who once destroyed themselves but linger as cold machine-minds within a black hole. Their credo: the Golden Oecumene must be destroyed.

Wright’s cosmology treats transhumanism as moral trial."

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/john-c-wright-reactionary-theologian-of-the-posthuman-spectacle/

#PostHumanism #SciFi #TransHumanism #Theology #Libertarianism #Capitalism

#Lineart WIP for the #Teegarden #TTRPG #playmat — the #Azulians, #Gizmos, and baseline humans playing the #tabletop version of their own #comic inside the comic. The med bay doubles as both a game room and a therapy session. Meta? Absolutely. Canon? Even moreso. #LineartWIP #ComicArt #SciFiArt #art

#manga #ArtProcess #ComicIllustration #GraphicNovel #ArtOfResistance #PostHumanism #DrawingInProgress #WeirdInternet #ArtistOnInstagram #IndieTTRPG

🆕 New on Digital Peace: AI and Work: The Hidden Human Cost of Automation
📖 Read now: https://digital-peace.org/ai-and-work-human-cost/

#AIandSociety #FutureOfWork #DigitalEthics #Automation #MeaningInWork #Posthumanism #AIReflections