Lady

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Intelligence
Quite good.

Extroverted
Not that much for talking.

Magic
At this point it's
even dangerous.

Empathy
It depends.

Agression
Don't go near her when
she's hungry.

Quotes

Theme Song(s)

- Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn

- Imagine Dragons - Release

- Daughter - Youth

- Marina & the Diamonds - Buy the Stars

- The Chainsmokers - Setting Fires

- Seafret - Be There

- Imagine Dragons - I’ll Make It Up To You

- Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life

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PERSONALITY


The following material is from the penultimate draft of The Ascent of Humanity. A few proofreading comments and footnotes haven’t been incorporated, but overall, the content is 99% congruent with the print version of the book now available on Amazon.com. I have put the entire text on line because I believe it is important for these ideas to circulate as widely as possible in the present time of crisis. In the book, I write of a coming shift from a profit-taking economy to a gift economy, from an economy of “how can I take the most?” to “how can I best give of my gifts?” This future, in which the anxiety of “making a living” no longer drives us, will arise out of the transformation in the human sense of self that is gathering today. But it is not only a future.

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STORY


Yes, humanity is vastly overrated because we need the space for the post-human. I’m drawing more on Donna Haraway than the transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil. Haraway argues that we need to do away with the essentialist notions that the human is a concept we must protect. The human is conceptually a dead end and the idea that we must protect humanity is more problem than positive. Instead in the place of the human should be something more chimeric, fusing animal and technology in order to be a space of creation. Humanity is a collection of semantic obfuscations that don’t really describe lived experience, instead we need to beyond the human into a space which reconfigures and recontextualizes those signifiers into something different and without an essential identity. Humanity isn’t overrated because of the things we’ve done or the impact we’ve had on the earth. It isn’t a matter of it being a concept that lacks descriptive value and that enforces a non-existent commonality philosophically.

I’d also argue, from the other end, that the lack of value in “humanity” comes from the ways the concept has been deployed as a restrictive type conferred upon those abjected by those within, forcing an identity politics within the human. To wit, humanity is conceptually determined by its relation to an in group which meet certain essential factors.

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AFTER (SOMETHING)


Yes, humanity is vastly overrated because we need the space for the post-human. I’m drawing more on Donna Haraway than the transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil. Haraway argues that we need to do away with the essentialist notions that the human is a concept we must protect. The human is conceptually a dead end and the idea that we must protect humanity is more problem than positive. Instead in the place of the human should be something more chimeric, fusing animal and technology in order to be a space of creation. Humanity is a collection of semantic obfuscations that don’t really describe lived experience, instead we need to beyond the human into a space which reconfigures and recontextualizes those signifiers into something different and without an essential identity. Humanity isn’t overrated because of the things we’ve done or the impact we’ve had on the earth. It isn’t a matter of it being a concept that lacks descriptive value and that enforces a non-existent commonality philosophically.

I’d also argue, from the other end, that the lack of value in “humanity” comes from the ways the concept has been deployed as a restrictive type conferred upon those abjected by those within, forcing an identity politics within the human. To wit, humanity is conceptually determined by its relation to an in group which meet certain essential factors.

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