Misunderstandings around Posthumanism. Lost in Translation? Metahumanism and Jaime del Val’s Metahuman Futures Manifesto

Abstract

Posthumanism is still a largely debated new field of contemporary philosophy that mainly aims at broadening the Humanist perspective. Academics, researchers, scientists, and artists are constantly transforming and evolving theories and arguments, around the existing streams of Posthumanist thought, Critical Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Metahumanism, discussing whether they can finally integrate or follow completely different paths towards completely new directions. This paper, written for the 1stMetahuman Futures Forum (Lesvos 2022) will focus on Metahumanism and Jaime del Val’s “Metahuman Futures Manifesto” (2022) mainly as an open dialogue with Critical Posthumanism.