1. Trash-human Unhancement and Planetary Health

Undoing the Planetary Holocaust by Reinventing Movement and the Body.

A Manifesto for Cosmic Response-ability and the Future of Life.

 

Desmejora trash-humana y salud planetaria

Cómo parar el holocausto planetario reinventando el cuerpo en movimiento

 

an essay by / un ensayo de

Jaime del Val

Pdf available online in English – Pdf disponible online en español:

 English:    Del Val, Jaime. 2022. “Trash-Human Unhancement and Planetary Health.: Undoing the Planetary Holocaust by Reinventing Movement and the Body: A Manifesto for Cosmic Response-Ability and the Future of Life”. Journal of Posthumanism 2 (1). London, UK: 3-30. https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v2i1.1876  – https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/view/1876

 

Castellano:  Del Val, Jaime. 2024. “Desmejora trash-humana y salud planetaria. Cómo parar el holocausto planetario reinventando el cuerpo en movimiento“. En La investigación-creación en la Universidad. Memorias del VI Encuentro Internacional de Investigación en Artes – 2021. Editores: Pablo Cardoso y Mario Maquilón. Pags. 243-293. Ecuador, Guayaquil: Universidad de las Artes Ediciones. Online:  https://mz14.uartes.edu.ec/producto/memorias-vi-encuentro-ilia/

 

 

Summary

Over the past 10.000 years –an eyeblink in geological timescales- the exponential population growth of one species, the Sapiens, from 1 million to nearly 10 billion, has taken over the planet, threatening evolution and biodiversity,  linked to an oppressive heteronormative regime obsessed with species multiplication, and to an insane mode of living and consumption based on the radical abuse and exploitation of other species, as well as other humans and the planet at large, unleashing a Planetary Holocaust or “Eternal Treblinka”, in which 100 billion animals per year are enslaved and killed in concentration camps, along with utterly unsustainable processes of production and consumption.

This extreme form of domination, itself unjustifiable, causing unimaginable damage, also implies, and is unleashing a planetary extinction cycle that also threatens the dominant species and the planet at large: an exponential process whose crisis point (extinction singularity) could be reached over the coming decades, and whose symptoms (pandemics, climate change, rates of species extinction, ecosystem disruption, etc.) have become increasingly visible over the past two years, as symptoms of a deeply damaged Planetary Health. But the response to the situation is so far mostly in reinforcing the systems that are at the core of the problem itself, in a spiral of systemic dependence, social control and polarisation. Urbanisation, consumption, technical systems and population: everything at the roots of the global crisis continues growing and accelerating.

This planet hosts billions of life forms that are unique, both in evolutionary and cosmic terms, therefore preventing extinction implies a responsibility far beyond all “humanity”, even beyond evolutionary and planetary implications: it is a cosmic responsibility for life. Planetary Health, as linked to evolutionary biodiversification, is thus above human health, besides being needed for human health, and it needs to be restored: this is our evolutionary challenge. Or shall we be know for being The Plague: the most inferior, because destructive, of species?

The Body as reply: underlying this millennia long problem of domination and earth appropriation linked to agricultural societies, lies an impoverishment of the body. An impoverished body has been created with an impoverished planet, a culture of atrophied, aligned, immobile bodies – an Unhanced Trash-human – with atrophied thoughts,  always lacking something, depending on unsustainable systems, feeding a spiral of narrow sensibility and reductive intelligence that interrupts symbiotic evolution.

The reply to this unprecedented challenge is therefore in regaining the body, the capacity to move, vary and feel: BI (Body Intelligence). In cultivating the smallest ongoing variation in the body lies the power to regain a Planetary Health, by unfurling a Radical Movement Philosophy and pragmatics, and a new theory of the symbiotic body and perception-proprioception.

The uncomfortable truths need to be tackled: a radical reduction in population and in consumption is needed, a radical transvaluation and transformation must be enacted, by undoing the dogma of species multiplication and its heteronormative model, by undoing the fallacies of immobility as civilization and its systemic dependencies, by undoing species suprematism that leads us to extinction, and by regaining the joys of moving with the world, towards unprecedented variations.

 

 

Selected Videos of talks by Jaime del Val on Trash-Humanism – June-July 2021:

Full List of videos of Talks 2021-2023

on Trash-humanism and Planetary Holocaust – in English, Spanish and French.

2021

  1. Trash-humanisme et Santé Planetaire – Metabody Toulouse Conference – in French: https://youtu.be/yci_iC2dTvQ
  2. Trash-humanismo – Madrid – Conde Duque – Festival de Filosofía

    1. Diálogo con Elena Postigo – Jaime del Val – Trash-humanismo: https://youtu.be/Jo-NjaQ0EDY
    2. Extracto – Jaime del Val – Trash-humanismo: https://youtu.be/C4atvU7607Y
  3. Trash-humanismo y salud planetaria – Madrid – Cursos UCM El Escorial
    1. Conferencia – Trashumanismo y salud planetaria – completa: https://youtu.be/dhZnWdi0gpU
    2. Conferencia – Trashumanismo y salud planetaria – extracto – Como parar el Holocausto Planetario: https://youtu.be/ngqkD6Ht7Ns
  4. La Heterosexualidad nos lleva a la Extinción – Madrid – Seminario LGTBI UCM 2
    1. Conferencia Jaime del Val – La heterosexualidad nos lleva a la extinción: https://youtu.be/WinIkmYsXfw
  5. Trash-humanismo – Mesa redonda – Madrid Medialab – Foro
    1. Mesa redonda: https://youtu.be/ojdT-sEG27U
  6. Trash-human Unhancement –  at the 2nd online Beyond Humanism Forum
    1. day 1 – 8th July – https://youtu.be/N0ssjaV_4fU
    2. day 2 – 9th July – https://youtu.be/Ncvb0J_UH24
      1. Jaime del Val on Trash-human Unhancement– https://youtu.be/OiH6g-DiRYA
  7. Desmejora Trash-humana y salud planetaria – Ecuador – Encuentor ILIA – https://fb.watch/96MO-irLG9/ – https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=4508990049164664 – Jaime del Val: 2’19’20 – 2’56’00
  8. Desmejora Trash-humana y salud planetaria –  Colombia – charla 2 horas Jaime del Val
    1. https://youtu.be/hGwqmaju0Sc
    2. https://youtu.be/5kDcNe2258I
    3. https://youtu.be/lpGV3mWhHTY – completa
  9. Cuerpo cuantificable, desmejora trash-humana y salud planetaria –  Jornadas sobre artes, tecnologías emergentes y Biosensado_01 – Argentina
    1. Jaime Del Val
      1. https://youtu.be/8a_IZS35Uio
      2. https://youtu.be/0LvLUlUuu4U
      3. https://youtu.be/8LJjxZdl99g
      4. https://youtu.be/5IYY4K_wbmk

2022

    1. Holocausto Planetario, Supremacismo Humano y extinción. Un Juicio a la Humanidad. Sevilla, III Congreso Andaluz sobre derechos de los animales, Junio 2022
      1. https://youtu.be/TAnka4eB59o (27′)
      2. https://youtu.be/XK_d6UN-adc (35′)
    2. Trash-Human Unhancement – 1st Online Metahuman Futures FORUM – https://youtube.com/live/bcvK8vmrTEg
      1. discussion of/replies to Del Val’s “Trash-Human Unhacament” text – talks by Del Val and others
    3. 1st Metahuman Futures FORUM in Lesvos

      1. Saturday morning: 9am-2pm — https://youtu.be/wM3ppO2rKmA
        1. Jaime del Val: Trial against Humanity. Planetary Holocaust, Huiman Supremacism and Extinction
      2. Saturday afternoon: 3pm-9pm — https://youtu.be/FD12tpzF4Ao
      3. Sunday morning: 9am-1pm — https://youtu.be/I1_KCPPjlQU
      4. Sunday afternoon: 3pm-9pm — https://youtu.be/5ccXL9zyIpQ
        1. Collective Discussion of the Metahuman Futures Manifesto
    4. Cuerpo Común y Salud Planetria. – COLOMBIA – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf6w2RlOpA0

2023

    1. La Danza de la Vida – Seminario – Colombia

      1. Sesión 1: CUERPO FLUCTUANTE – 5 septiembre – Introducción: danza de la vida y Holocausto Planetario. Ontología del cuerpo fluctuante como matriz proprioceptiva. Filosofía Radical del Movimiento y Principio de Fluctuación. – Link inicial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhhYKYKoOI – Grabación corregida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x5JM9rS2GY
      2. Sesión 2: CUERPO ENJAMBRE – 7 septiembre –  Cosmología de fluctuación y evolución de la vida. Micro-y metasexualidad: el sexo como mutación y la evolución orgiástica. El cuerpo-enjambre. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m9EUtOtfec
      3. Sesión 3: CUERPO ALINEADO – 14 septiembre – La danza coral en sociedades animales y humanas desde el paleolítico a la actualidad. El surgimeinto del cuerpo alineado. Ontopolítica coral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZpdJDRfaRY&t=3906s
      4. Sesión 4: CUERPO EXTINGUIDO – 21 septiembre – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewygE7C590 – Grabación corregida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmIgJocQ4R4&t=7607s
      5. Sesión 5 : CUERPO RECOBRADO – 19 octubre – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G2l4HQSp88
      6. Entrevista-charla: Metacuerpo -12 septiembre – 4pm Colombia – 11pm España – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRaE0lNWX3M
      7. Panel: Metacuerpo – con Elena Sterenberg, Carlos Eduardo Sanabria, Mariana Dicker y Jaime del Val – 18 octubre – 4pm Colombia – 11pm España – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUHTd6lBIvY&t=915s
      8. Conferencia: La Extinción de la danza – 20 octbre – 4pm Colombia – 11pm España – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0riLgyYUu-g&t=681s
    2. Alimentos de Destrucción masiva. Como Explotar animales nos lleva a la extinción – Almería, conferencia en Jornadas ecologistas del Levante almeriense:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukziqztdLDo
    3. Filosofía supremacista y Falsa transvaloración: Nihilismo Trash-humano y Holocausto Planetario. – Madrid UCM – conferencia: https://metabody.eu/es/filosofia-supremacista/ – https://youtu.be/C_iIeTnqPYM?si=XqeSSo2bm-Y07y90
    4. Talks at the 3rd MFF & 13 BHC – Lesvos
      1. Trial Agains Humanity: A sect of 8 billion psycopaths? https://youtu.be/tcOQDsi8u8w
      2. Metabiosis and Earth Liberation https://youtu.be/1-WrNBFQgXk

2024

    1. Informe Alimentos de Destrucción Masiva – Formación online con Futuro Vegetal https://youtu.be/oDAral8_ZsE?si=w1Jf0mzAigkY_ln6
    2. Metahuman Futures Forum Lesvos 2024
      1. all sessions and programme: https://metabody.eu/3rd-metahuman-futures-forum/
        1. Talk by Jaym* del Val in session 3: Reversing Supremacist-Denialist Philosophy: Metahuman Justice and Freedom for all life forms. Or Deep Degrowth: Metabiosis, Body Intelligence, nomad gathering and the undoing of the disaster of exploitative civilization.
    3. Iberoamerican Metahuman Futures Forum
      1. all sessions and programme: https://metabody.eu/es/futuros-metahumanos-iberoamerica-2024/
        1. Charla de Jaym* del Val en la primera sesión: Descolonización Terrestre y Nuestro Futuro como Recolector*s: Inteligencia Corporal y Técnicas de Cuerpo para una transformación de la vida, mutando en el desastre que viene. Notas para una r/evolución metahumana, y un desmontaje profundo del supremacismo y el negacionismo humanos.