Issue #98 (Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia

(Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia

Franco “Bifo” Berardi

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Max de Esteban, Twenty Red Lights, 2008-2018. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.

Issue #98
March 2019










Notes
1

Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death (Sage Publications, 1993), 9.

2

Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking Books, 2005), 25, 28.

3

Günther Anders, Die Atomare Drohung: Radikale Überlegungen zum atomaren Zeitalter (Taschenbuch 2003), 93.

4

Yuval Harari, Homo Deus (Penguin Random House, 2015), 397.

5

Yuk Hui, “What Begins After the End of the Enlightenment?,” e-flux journal no. 96 (January 2019) .

6

Harari, Homo Deus, 361.

7

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, letter to Burchard de Volder, referenced in Stefano Mugnai, Introduzione alla filosofia di Leibniz (Einaudi, 2001), 114, my translation.

8

Carlo Rovelli, Lordine del tempo (Adelphi, 2017), my translation.

9

Henri Bergson, Durée et Simultaneité (Presse Universitaire de France, 1922), 48.

10

Rovelli, Lordine del tempo, my translation.