Planetary post-humanism: New corporeal perspectives

Abstract

This visual essay seeks to explore a planetary corporeal posthumanism that transcends a humanist cosmology and ethics, thinking about the concepts of human and non-human as a continuum, going beyond a clear anthropocentric identity. If materiality has been absent from certain posthuman perspectives, conceptualized as an immaterial consciousness, a planetary posthumanism incorporates new configurations of the human as a corporeal, hybrid, permeable organism, with an emerging subjectivity in a material network of connections. Going beyond the concept of informational cyberspace attributed to the internet, the images presented in this essay generate speculative environments where consciousness is distributed in multiple liminal spaces with continuous reconfigurations, connections and mutations. The posthuman is embodied in worms, ghost towns, amorphous liquids and waifus, female fictional characters who, given their exclusion from the universal category of Man, are reconfigured as a new consciousness in the emerging landscapes of the planetary techno-conscious reservoir.