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Kolejne
soniczne eksploracje S.E.T.I. (Andrew
Lagowski, Legion, Terror Against Terror,
Lustmord, Isolrubin BK, nagrania dla
Touch i Ash) z udzialemBarry Nicholsa (Si_COMM,
ECM323).
Porazajace brzmieniowo dzielo podszyte
przeslaniem o skutkach modyfikacji genomu
i ewolucji gatunku ludzkiego...Spiew post-humanoidów.
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Confronted
with its imminent obsolescence - mankind
is being forced to evolve - we now have
to consider re-examining and
reconfiguring our very structure. The
inevitability of mankind relocating, and
recolonising elsewhere in deep space
means that humans will have to
consistently perform in an increasingly
sophisticated technological realm in
order to ensure survival.
We are already intimidated by the speed,
power, and complexity of our
technological counterparts - our
inability to process the quality,
quantity, and complexity of information
required for impending transition,
suggests a dramatic need for change. The
time has come for the body to break free
from its ephemeral genetic heritage, and
become host to technological enhancement,
and extrusion. Hybridised -The Self must
now be diffused and re- located beyond
its own local biology and extended into
data space.
EVOLUTION IS ACCELERATED WHEN TECHNOLOGY
FUSES WITH BIOLOGY
ANY truly posthuman body is a framework
that can be extruded and enhanced in an
electronic space of distributed
intelligence - emotions are temporarily
displaced, or dispensed with. Remotely
transmitting to, and actuating peripheral
technological devices - we are to become
alien- augmented beings, operating in a
space where flesh becomes information,
language becomes signal - and the mind
perceives beyond its own subjective space
and scale. We are about to become hybrids
- merging with technology, interfacing
with data space, and transcending
physiology, extending and enhancing the
body's operational parameters;
catapulting our species into a new
evolutionary trajectory
MAN BECAME INFORMATION WITH THE DISCOVERY
OF DNA
The notion of a POSTHUMAN being is the
corollary of the interpretation of the
Alien. In its widest sense, it signifies
not only the Other, the monstrous, the
hybrid, the cyborg, or even the clone and
the transgenic, but that which does not
naturally evolve from its roots, or,
indeed, that whose roots can no longer
clearly be traced, or have become
irrelevant, unknown, outmoded, or follow
from principles outside previous
understanding. It can be argued that the
current popular fascination with
stereotypical 'aliens' is an attempt to
give expression to the pervasiveness of a
putative, yet inevitable Posthuman
Condition; a condition that, far from
being a sci-fi fantasists' dream of
transcendence, will eventually have
profound effects on the lives of billions
of people as we are forced to leave the
confines of the Earth, and in seeking out
new destinations on other worlds, prepare
for the demands wrought by prolonged deep
space travel.
Heidegger saw technology as a mode of
"revealing", whereas Ortega y
Gasett defines it as a
Medium for "releasing". The
assimilation of technology into the human
landscape contours behaviour and the
human condition. Deep space travellers
will persistently inhabit increasingly
complex and hostile alien environments
populated by subtle performance
indicators - visual and acoustical cues
that alert, activate, condition, and
control physiological, and neural
performance. Our natural circadian
rhythms will be artificially augmented by
electronic signals and pulses. These
electronically induced signals will
modulate bodily functions in the same way
that music does - acting as a kind of
whole-body pacemaker. One that
simultaneously permits the physiological
control of movement and thought.
Posthumans will be regulated, primed and
activated in sync with high- speed visual
and acoustic pulses. The ultimate
POSTHUMAN body will be the product of
design -a host for advanced technology,
an entity wholly different from anything
we now know or define as human
more details:
www.lagowski.com
www.ecm323.co.uk http://www.ecm323.co.uk/Si_comm.htm
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