Abstract
ABSTRACT The problem that the "posthuman" must cope with is complex: how can one embrace both anti-humanistic problematization and deconstruction of the human subject by post-structuralism and, at the same time, link the capacity of techno-science for de-humanization with the possibility for inventing posthuman subjectivity? Consideration of the posthumanization of the human must expand further from the cyborgization based on the strengthening of human individuals' capacity, and there is need of a paradigm shift for us to rethink and reconceptualize the posthuman within the ontological and sociopolitical relational networking beyond the opposition of technocentric determinism and humancentric instrumentalism. Human beings were produced in the disciplinary society in the form of self-disciplined "individuals" and have been produced in the control society in the form of de-individualized "dividuals," respectively. If so, then what will the form of human beings be in the posthuman society outside or after the control society, which has yet to arrive? In this paper, pointing out the limitations of discussions on cyborgization and examining Deleuze's diagnosis of the control society based on digital technology, I argue that we can find a new possibility for posthuman subjectivity in Simondon's "transindividual relationship" complemented by Guattari's "transversality." I propose that it will be possible for posthuman society to be produced when the transindividual relationships based on the transductive operation of technological invention realizing the common natural potentiality are realized, and a high degree of transversal communication that prevents the subjugation of this collectivity is maintained.
Highlights
To which problem must the “posthuman” be considered an answer? There are largely two backgrounds to the emergence of the posthuman theme
I think that going beyond the thinking of cyborgization surrounding the opposition between disembodiment and embodiment of human individual mind-body, makes it is necessary to re-approach the synergic relationship between human and technology in the light of a more fundamental and holistic viewpoint that contemplates a condition of production for the posthuman subjectivity beyond the anthropo-individual-centric humanism
In order to transform into the posthuman society from the dividual society, where can we find the leak locations of the control society, whose subcomponents are the technical machines of computers and financial capitalist machines? Can the lines of flight facing outside the control society be found ?
Summary
To which problem must the “posthuman” be considered an answer? There are largely two backgrounds to the emergence of the posthuman theme. The model of the “cyborg,” the most popular representation of the posthuman, remains on the level of the strengthening of human individuals’ capacity through mind-body transformation This approach is insufficient for considering the well-balanced relationship between human and technology in order to overcome anthropo-individual-centric humanism and to produce a new subjectivity, and there is need of a paradigm shift for us to rethink and re-conceptualize the posthuman within the whole relational networking of ontological and sociopolitical dimensions concerning technology. Therein lies the possibility for a posthuman subjectivity that does not reduce to the cyborg model focused on the enhancement of the human individual capacity and that cuts across the techno-utopian fantasy based on the hyper-connectivity of digital coding and techno-nihilism of dividuals produced by the control society
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