UNIST 인문학부의 Posthuman Research Cluster에서 주최하는 “포스휴먼 연구” 관련 2021년 봄학기 Brown Bag Talk Series의 일정을 공유합니다. 관심있으신 분은 포스터의 하단에 있는 주소를 이용하여 등록하시기 바랍니다.

강원대학교 인문과학연구소에서 한국연구재단 인문사회연구소지원사업의 일환으로 국제 학술대회 “초연결사회, 인간/자연(본성)의 재사유”를 개최합니다.

인공지능, 사물/만물 인터넷, 빅데이터 등 정보 기술이 발달하고 그에 바탕한 디지털 문화가 보편화된 이 시대를 가리켜 “초연결시대”라 합니다.

예전부터 모든 인간과 사회는 서로 연결되어 있었습니다. 그러나 이제 연결은 단지 개인, 집단, 문화, 국가 사이의 것만이 아닙니다. 인간과 동물, 행성, 기계와 같은 비인간 사이 그리고 비인간과 비인간 사이의 것이기도 합니다.

이렇듯 다양하고 이질적인 존재물의 연결(connection)에 놓인 인간을 재사유하고, 그로부터 인간, 자연, 사물의 공존(coexistence)의 가능성을 모색해 보고자 합니다.

이번 학술대회는 코로나19로 인한 사회적 거리두기를 준수하기 위해 Zoom 화상 회의로 개최됩니다.

September 19, 2020, 10:00-16:00 (local time, UTC/GMT +9)

Zoom ID : 981 6941 7910
Zoom link : https://kangwon-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/98169417910

Program

10:00 – 10:10 Opening Ceremony
Opening Address: Nam, Eui-hyeon (Director, Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University) 남의현 (강원대 인문과학연구소장)
Congratulatory Address: Cho, Sae-youn (Dean, College of Humanities, KNU) 조세연 (강원대 인문대학장)

Session I

1. 10:10 – 11:10
Covid19, Hyperconnectivity and Posthuman Awareness
코로나19, 초연결성 그리고 포스트휴먼 자각
– Francesca Ferrando (NYU) 프란체스카 페란도 (뉴욕대)
Discussion: Jeesun Rhee (KNU) 이지선 (강원대)

2. 11:10 – 12:10
Thought Analysis and Its Significance to the Hyperconnective Society
사고 분석, 그리고 초연결사회에서의 그 의미
– 潘天群 Tianqun Pan (Nanjing University) 티안췬 판 (난징대)
Discussion: Young E. Rhee (Korea University) 이영의 (고려대)

12:10 – 13:00 Lunch Break

Session II

3. 13:00 – 14:00
Between Hype and Hyperobjects: Rethinking Nature (or Media) in Hyperconnected Society
과장과 초과객체 사이에서: 초연결사회 속에서 자연을 (즉 미디어를) 재사유하기
– Kwak, Yung Bin (Yonsei University) 곽영빈 (연세대)
Discussion: Chung, Lak-Kil (KNU) 정락길 (강원대)

4. 14:00 – 15:00
Nietzschean Analysis of the Identity between Phono Sapiens as Digital Human and Homo Sapiens as Thinking Human
디지털 인류 포노 사피엔스와 생각하는 인류 호모 사피엔스 사이 인간의 정체성에 대한 니체적 분석
– Kim Sun-Hye (KNU) 김선희 (강원대)
Discussion: Lee Sangbum (Wonkwang University) 이상범 (원광대)

Session III

5. 15:10 – 15:50
General Discussion

6. 15:50 – 16:00
Closing Ceremony

Organized by Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University
Sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea

2020년 7월2일과 3일 양일 사이에 열리는 1st Beyond Humanism Forum 소식을 안내해드립니다. 7월초에 그리스의 Lesbos에서 개최될 예정이던 학술대회가 내년으로 연기되고, 올해는 온라인 포럼으로 진행하게 된 행사입니다. 7월 3일에는 한양대 철학과의 이상욱 교수님께서 Privacy in the Age of Pandemic 라는 발표를 합니다. 많은 관심 부탁드립니다. 행사 일정에 대한 새로운 업데이트는 http://beyondhumanism.org/ 에서 확인하실 수 있습니다. 감사합니다.

Post-Trans-Metahumanist Exchanges in Times of COVID-19 & the 10^th Anniversary of the Metahumanist Manifesto

Featuring: Stelarc, James Hughes, Leo Igwe, Sang Wook Yi, Francesca Ferrando, Carmel Veisman, Yvonne Förster, Keoma Ferreira, Jaime del Val, Anna Markopoulou, Evi Sampanikou, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Jan Stasienko.

The 1st Beyond Humanism Forum is a metaglobal event with leading scholars, artists, and intellectuals from 5 continents (Australia, Africa, Asia, South and North America and Europe) and 11 countries (Nigeria, Brazil, South Korea, Australia, USA, Israel, Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland), who will talk about the impact of the pandemic crisis from a diversity of Post-Trans-Metahumanist perspectives, the Metahumanist Manifesto’s 10th anniversary, and further issues of contemporary relevance. 

Critical exchanges across posthumanist, metahumanist and transhumanist approaches could provide a fruitful and urgent arena of debate around the challenges emerging, which concern fundamental rights and freedoms, privacy, the role of the body and a deep transformation of humanity and the planet amongst many others.

You can access the live stream via the Youtube channel “Posthumans go viral”, and participate in discussions using the chat function available:

·         YOUTUBE LINK 2nd July: https://youtu.be/dFzMV_jXaaA

·         YOUTUBE LINK 3rd July:  https://youtu.be/urJcMzAZAew

Further information can be found on the Beyond Humanism Network site soon:

·        http://beyondhumanism.org/beyond-humanism-forum

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This  metacontinental online event is  a branch of the Beyond Humanism Conference, which this year was going to happen in Lesbos, Greece for the third time, and has been postponed to the COVID-9 pandemic. 

On a regular basis, we will have live digital events which will be streamed via Youtube, Facebook, and twitter. You can follow us at the following channels. Please join us there, and please also join the discussion rooms in posthumans2021.slack.com.  If you are interested in participating, please contact Prof. Evi Sampanikou e.sampanikou@gmail.com

Organizers: Jaime del Val, Evi Sampanikou, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

Organizing committee: Anna Markopoulou, Sangkyu Shin, Chryssi Soteriades

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PROGRAMME

1st Beyond Humanism Forum

2nd of July 2020:

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/dFzMV_jXaaA

5.45 pm (CET) introduction with Jan Stasienko (Poland), Evi Sampanikou (Greece), Jaime del Val (Spain) and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Italy)
6 pm James Hughes (USA) – The Professional-Managerial Class and the Politicization of Science
6.30 pm Francesca Ferrando (USA)  in dialogue with Jaime del Val (Spain) and Evi Sampanikou (Greece):  Post-trans-metahumanisms and COVID-19, differences, antagonisms and relations? & BOOK presentations

7 pm Leo Igwe (Nigeria) & Keoma Ferreira Antonio (Brazil)- Posthuman Perspectives on Covid-19 from Africa and Latin America

7.30 pm Metahumanism  Discussion – with Jaime del Val (Spain) and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Italy) – Metahumanist Manifesto 10 years/10paragraphs (including Multiversal Declaration of Metahuman Rights, for a Planetary Health by Jaime del Val)

8-9 pm Open discussion between speakers and with audience including Anna Markopoulou Privacy or Freedom? Political and Philosophical implications of the dilemma (Greece)

3rd of July 2020:

YOUTUBE LINK:  https://youtu.be/urJcMzAZAew

11.45 am (CET)  – Introduction with  Evi Sampanikou (Greece), Jaime del Val (Spain) and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Italy)

12 pm  – Stelarc (Australia) – Inverse Desires: Split Bodies, Fractal Flesh and Phantom Glitches

12.30 pm – Sang Wook Yi (South Korea) –  Privacy in the Age of Pandemic

1 pm  Carmel Vaisman (Israel) – The Zoomification of our lives

1’30 pm  Open discussion between speakers and with audience including Yvonne Foerster (Germany)

2’30-3 pm Performance by Jaime del Val (Spain)

4-5’30pm workshop with Jaime del Val – Body Intelligence in times of autonomous algorithms – upon separate inscription here: metabody@metabody.eu

General moderation: Chryssi Soteriades (Greece),

Discussion and technical moderation: Chryssi Soteriades (Greece), Anna Markopoulou (Greece), Evi Sampanikou (Greece), Jaime del Val (Spain) and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Italy)   

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

·         STELARC‘S new  Reclining StickMan project and performance: currently exhibiting in Adelaide and accessible for online interaction here  recliningstickman.stelarc.org– (only during gallery hours in Adelaide 10am-5pm CET+8) – Images and videos of he project and performance in the website – The performance on the robot was for 5 hours continuously. The artist was able to initiate limb motions with the pneumatic joysticks and improvise with local and remote people who could insert their own movements.

·         METAHUMANIST MANIFESTO 10th ANNIVERSARY: Workshops, talks and performances in Metabody – https://metabody.eu/imf-2020/ – Inscription for the Forum workshop online 3rd July at 4-5’30pm with Jaime del Val – Body Intelligence in times of autonomous algorithms – here: metabody@metabody.eu

·         Posthumans go Viral – Channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jO-KdbkU2v2h0CxiyTyHg

7 TRANSVERSAL THEMATIC THREADS:

1. Post-trans-meta-humanisms and COVID-19

·         Are the mass media narratives concerning the pandemic mainly humanistic ones?

·         Is transhumanism radically affirming itself through the pandemic, given the fact that technology corporations and the reliance upon their technologies are affirming themselves in unprecedented manner?

·         What is the place for a critical posthumanistic chance for an awareness of our entanglement with others and the planet, vulnerability and alignments for a paradigm shift that exceeds humanism?

·         What can metahumanism provide in terms of a deeper insight into embodied practices for a change in sensitivity?

2. Surveillance, control and transhumanism

·         Is it justified to increase surveillance for the sake of health? Which are the options? Privacy vs. freedom. Can they be separated? 

·         Ethics of algorithms

·         Autonomous algorithms and big data ethics

·         Use of emotions by power

·         What is the relationship between sovereign necropolitics (administration of death), disciplinary biopolitics (enclosures and optimization of life), and control ontopolitics (digital preemption) in the pandemic and (how) are all of them being reinforced?

3. Planetary health, entangled becomings and critical posthumanism

·         How to promote plurality, justice and a planetary health in times of the pandemic. 

·         Environmental Ethics and the climate crisis. The environmental parameter.

·         Awareness of entanglement with each other and the planet, and what to do about it.

·         Evolution as cooperation and viruses as foundational of biodiversity.

·         Pandemic outbreak and environmental disruption.

4. Embodied experience and the metahumanistic turn

·         How do digital interfaces in confinement affect embodied experiences, affects or cognition?

·         Embodied cognitive approaches to how digital interfaces orient experience.

·         How to have richer embodiments in time of social distance. 

5. Meta-relating in times of COVID-19 (conferencing, working, learning, consuming, prosuming, from home)

·         How to create an online field, an embodied online event, which one travels to?

·         What does an online event miss with regard to a physical one and what to do about it?

·         Can one do critical zooming? Or how to ontohack distant relations. 

6. Metahumanist Manifesto – 10th anniversary

·         10 paragraphs – workshops, performances, alternative modes of thought, movement and perception – www.metahumanism.net

7. Metaglobal dialogues

·         Both the pandemic, the technological revolution and posthuman discourses are evolving differently in diverse regions of the world. These differences expose numerous inequalities inherited from colonialism but also positive senses of diversity and plurality. With participants from Australia, Africa, Asia, South and North America and Europe we would like to account for both the problematic ways in which these processes propagate and the positive variations happening across regions whose division is inherited from a colonial past that can perhaps be redefined towards more plural metaglobal futures.