[FRIAM] PostHumanism/Modernism/Anthropocene

[Marcus Daniels]

It seems to me the diachronic is fight a losing battle.   The solar system, the billions of people in the world, and especially the rich and powerful, will do what they do, and it will mostly drive individuals to adapt and react.   It isn't meaningful to expect people to have coherent stories.   Coherence comes at the cost of isolation.  

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I so *wanted* to comment on that 60 page paper. But it's too much. I ended up skimming and skipping along. One thing that does seem relevantly missing (?) is Strawson's distinction between diachronic and narrative. An aspect of some (maybe rare, I'm too ignorant to say) post[structural|modern]ists is an implied accusation that modernists are *intentionally* narrative, rather than narrativity being a (natural?) artifact of our necessary diachronicity. And I didn't see much mention of *meta*narratives, as opposed to narratives. Even we episodics have, in our episodes, narratives. The main difference, as always, comes in how one *composes* one's episodes. [⛧] Similarly, a more nuanced understanding of postmodernism relies on the criticism of meta-narrativity more so than narrativity writ small. In that way, we can imagine gradations of posthuman[ism|s], where we go through ordinal "stages" ... higher order operators can be built upon priors when and only when (wwhen? whenn? like "iff"?) the priors have frozen into manipulable building blocks. And if we imagine it that way, whatever meta-narratives *emerge* depends on the historical accidents of those freezing stages, the "shapes" of those building blocks.


[⛧] Maybe also in how one decomposes/analyzes/deconstructs one's episodes.

On 12/20/22 16:36, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I’ve been thinking I580 along the East Bay would make a nice place for sea creatures to hide, and a good concrete foundation for a bike lane on piers.  So quiet it would be without the cars.  Bring on the sea level rise!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 20, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here's my latest positive hit from Academia
>>
>> Countdown to Extinction? - Posthumanism in Science Fiction
>>
>> Raoul Guariguata
>>
>> https://www.academia.edu/2061036/Countdown_to_Extinction_Posthumanism
>> _in_Science_Fiction
>>
>> I could rattle on for pages about my take on this, but the short version is that I found this *very* readable and helped me appreciate the role of postmodernism and it's relationship to posthumanism cast in the backdrop of a century (and a half) of scientifiction/romance writing/speculating.
>>
>> Oh yeh, and also with the backdrop of the impending extinction-by-excess arc humans are on as we argue over when to *start* the Anthropocene when it is likely it is also about to *end* in the shortest-lived geological epoch of all time?!
>>
>> @EricS Fermi Paradox indeed!


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