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CLARIFYING METAHUMANISM

CLARIFYING METAHUMANISM
The story of a double erasure, misappropriation, and more.
Why metahumanism opposes transhumanism, what it really is, where it comes from, and how it is  evolving.
Shedding light on persistent confusions around Del Val’s vs. Sorgner’s positions, and on the problems with Sorgner’s use of the term.
by Jaym* del Val
Citation:   Del Val, Jaym*. […]

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GEOPOLÍTICS OF THE ORGY

GEOPOLITICS OF THE ORGY
by Jaime del Val
thanks to Algorithmic Orgy for the translation from the Spanish version
Orgiastic Ontology

Following biologist Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, evolution is literally a continuous planetary orgy that has been going on for 4 billion years, primarily an orgy of bacteria and viruses. Bacterial sex is the mechanism of genetic […]

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MULTIVERSAL DECLARATION OF METAHUMAN RIGHTS

MULTIVERSAL DECLARATION OF METAHUMAN RIGHTS
by Jaime del Val – Reverso – Metabody Institute

jaimedelval@metabody.eu – www.metabody.eu
Pdf: MULTIVERSAL DECLARATION OF METAHUMAN RIGHTS
Evolution is the movement of variation by which every universe is an expression and unfolding of quantum fluctuations. This law of fluctuation as only a priory, as motor of any potential multiverse implies also a […]

METAHUMANIST MANIFESTO 10 years after

 

 

METAHUMANIST MANIFESTO: its genealogy, evolution and relevance 10 years after
by Jaime del Val
Pdf>>>>>   METAHUMANIST MANIFESTO 10 YEARS AFTER
An excerpt/version of this text has been published as:

Del Val, Jaime del. 2021.  “The Dances of Becoming and the Metahumanist Manifesto. Its genealogy, evolution and relevance 10 years after.” InPosthuman Studies Reader. Core readings […]

Interferences as Quality – Katharina Groß

Interferences as Quality
On the mode of existence of media technology
by Katharina Groß*
This text is based on my dissertation “Playbour-Time: Experimental exploration of the techno-aesthetic mode of existence” and is continuously expanded and updated. You can find a german version of this text here (http://www.katharinagross.tv/2020/04/stoerung-als-qualitaet-zur-existenzweise-von-medientechnologie/). English translation by Katharina Groß.

—–This post is part of the […]

COVID-19 as Metabody

 
THE VIRUS, OUR ALLY: A COVID-19 MANIFESTO
by Jaime del Val – Reverso – METABODY

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Viruses were always, and still are, an ally of evolution, affording horizontal mutations in bacteria over 4 billion years and with them biodiversity: we are their offspring. On the other hand the disruption of ecosystems through human-technical […]

Algorithmic Government: the Problem IS the Technology

Algorithmic Government:
the Problem IS the Technology
Facebook  vs. China:  The radical opacity of Big Data systems is intrinsic to the technology – we need an ontological critique of technology

by Jaime del Val –  22nd March 2018  –  © Jaime del Val – 2018

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Gobierno algorítmico: el problema radica en la propia tecnología, no solo en […]

THE LAYERING OF EMPIRES – (DECOLONIZING BODIES 1.0)

Metaformance in Columbus Circle – New York – by Jaival-Reverso – 19th April 2015

A tribute to the Lenape native americans who first populated the area now called Manhattan, prior to and alongside colonial alignments.
by Jaime del Val
It’s a cold, windy, cloudy, moisty evening of early spring in NYC. Columbus circle is deserted of bypassers. […]

Preface of the editor – Metabody Journal of Metacultural Critique – Nº 1

Metabody – Journal of Metacultural Critique – 1
IMF – International Metabody Forum
Metaformance Studies 2013-14
Multiplicities in Motion – Open source Bodies-Spaces.
Preface.
We start herewith the first of a series of publications of the Metabody Project and its International Forum. It’s a first mosaic of introductions, kaleidoscope of incipiencies, declarations of unintentions and dispositionings, since this project […]

METABODY MANIFESTO 1.0

For an embodied, differential media ethics in global surveillance culture.

July 2013 – The following is beta version 1.0 of a draft to be discussed amongst the partners of the Metabody Project during the 5 years of the project’s duration.

Media give form to our perceptions and proprioceptions, therefore to the ways we relate to one […]

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