the spectre of biokinesis and flesh sorcery suggests that we reevaluate what it means to be human
Prometheism Manifesto:
https://prometheism.com/f/the-prometheist-manifesto
>That Prometheus bestowed the human being with his soul in the form of a butterfly already suggests that he is not only the creator, but also the liberator of Man. When Zeus punishes Prometheus for attempting to secure his creation a life beyond sacrificial servitude, the rebel titan takes his revenge against the God-Father by gifting mortals with the fire of the forge and the light of knowledge. The fire that he steals from Olympus in the fennel stalk is emblematic of the power of technological science to free us from imposed scarcity and enforced ignorance.
>humans have a unique relationship to technological science or Technoscience, one which could be described as co-constitutive, and that renders our existence uniquely problematic and dangerous – not just dangerous to ourselves but to the cosmos or Being-as-such.
>technological science has the power to assimilate, encompass, reorganize, and eclipse all that is seemingly natural – not just ‘human nature’ but “the worldhood of the world” as such. Here Heidegger is anticipating not just biotechnology, but also virtual reality (i.e. “the World as Picture”) and contemplating their significance on an existential level.
>Heidegger’s interpretation of technological science is that its development is not only teleological (purposive, goal-directed), but also apocalyptic. It destines us, through meaningfully successive epochs, to an end of history, after which our existence will be almost inconceivably transformed. Moreover, this end of history is not subjectively relevant to homo sapiens on the planet Earth. It is, as Heidegger imagines it, the ultimate “event” in the history of Being and of Being’s revelation of itself in different modalities and in the guise of various worldviews.
>Faced with this unacceptable prospect, we intend to drive people forward and thereby discover who can endure the future. By what criteria are these gifted few judged to be the progenitoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.