{"id":339,"date":"2021-10-26T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=339"},"modified":"2022-03-04T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:45:27","slug":"the-cocaine-hippos-of-posthumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/26\/the-cocaine-hippos-of-posthumanism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cocaine Hippos of Posthumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Legally, we are already in the posthumanist era. Corporations have long been considered persons in certain jurisdictions, despite not facing the same potential limitations on their freedom as actual people. A couple of years ago, a stretch of the Magpie river in Canada was also granted legal standing as a person, as part of an attempt to provide it with environmental protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, the “most invasive animals on earth” have also been elevated to personhood, the late Pablo Escobar’s hippos.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pablo
Don’t feed the cocaine hippos – even though they’re people now.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ordinarily we understand posthumanism to be some sort of utopian merging of man and machine, but perhaps it might also, and better, be understood as a way of treating non-human entities with the same respect generally extended to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, I feel that implementing human rights (and responsibilities) for all humans might be required as a priority. We’re at risk of stratifying the world into a place where non-humans have more rights than some humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is the fundamental problem with posthumanism as a utopian ethos. Like all utopian ideals, it is utterly blind to the stratification it ushers into being, even while denying it is doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legally, we are already in the posthumanist era. Corporations have long been considered persons in certain jurisdictions, despite not facing the same potential limitations on their freedom as actual people. A couple of years ago, a stretch of the Magpie river in Canada was also granted legal standing as a person, as part of an … <\/p>\n

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