In addition to shifting the centre of value, as discussed in my last post, posthumanism shifts the universal centre of potential for progress. Transhumanism extends the human centre, critical posthumanism relocates it to myriad ‘Others’, and theocentric posthumanism relocates it to God. To explain, consider that a key idea of humanism since the classical period,… Continue reading Coming to Terms with Determinism
Category: Theocentrism
The Posthumanism of Theological Voluntarism
Anti-humanism is the decentring of humanity as the universal centre of value and potential for progress. Posthumanism is the re-centring of value and potential elsewhere. Transhumanism re-centres on an extended and enhanced concept of humanity. Critical posthumanism re-centres on a multiplicity of centres, including Braidotti’s strategy of re-centring on living matter in any form. Theistic… Continue reading The Posthumanism of Theological Voluntarism
The Order of Things
The tenor of theocentric posthumanism is captured by its response to a landmark text of anti-humanism, Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things (1970). Often cited as a catalyst for post-colonial theory and politics, it has surprisingly little to do with a critique of humanism as a justification for oppression of the Other, despite containing Foucault’s… Continue reading The Order of Things
The Grand Narrative of Humanism
The idea of theocentric posthumanism begins with the thought that there was a pre-humanism from which Western humanism deviated. Thereafter, the grand narrative of humanism played out over four centuries until its exhaustion by the end of the twentieth century. On the theocentric view, this exhaustion was inevitable given the foundations of human nature and… Continue reading The Grand Narrative of Humanism
Theocentric Posthumanism 