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The Anti-anthropocentric Crisis

Zane Gillespie
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These are brief excerpts from a lecture/recital I gave as part of The American Society for Cybernetics 2018 Conference. Most cyberneticians’ research seeks to explicate personal autonomy in a fashion that highlights the role of human cultural and human social relationships and interpersonal ties, but the attendees of this conference sometimes seemed to be paying a visit to the post-humanist point of view. For example, everyone subscribes to Herbert Brün’s systems approach to composition (i.e., in the broader sense of putting things together) although it comes very close to artistic Modernism’s deeply anti-social, even inhuman tendency toward art for art’s sake. Some challenge mankind‘s privileged position among animals and machines. Others are trying to affirm and stabilize standard, liberal humanism. Counterbalancing these considerations, most share the conviction that mere continuation (or what documentary filmmaker Jude Lombardi calls “insist …...more
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The Anti-anthropocentric Crisis
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2019Apr 19
These are brief excerpts from a lecture/recital I gave as part of The American Society for Cybernetics 2018 Conference. Most cyberneticians’ research seeks to explicate personal autonomy in a fashion that highlights the role of human cultural and human social relationships and interpersonal ties, but the attendees of this conference sometimes seemed to be paying a visit to the post-humanist point of view. For example, everyone subscribes to Herbert Brün’s systems approach to composition (i.e., in the broader sense of putting things together) although it comes very close to artistic Modernism’s deeply anti-social, even inhuman tendency toward art for art’s sake. Some challenge mankind‘s privileged position among animals and machines. Others are trying to affirm and stabilize standard, liberal humanism. Counterbalancing these considerations, most share the conviction that mere continuation (or what documentary filmmaker Jude Lombardi calls “insistent repetition” or “circularity”) of an already established concept will decidedly NOT bring about new continuity. With my lecture/recital (featuring my set of 11 pieces for piano and digital delay entitled The Human and Non-Human), my non-anthropocentric or anti-anthropocentric ruminations were directly addressed. In much the same way that Jack Rees, heir to Kansas City, Missouri's oldest interior design firm in continuous operation, said that parametric design strategies are fluff, I strongly suggested that human exceptionalism is both trivial and superficial. What do you think? Should humanity be placed at the center of all concern?

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Zane Gillespie

26 subscribers