Post-humanism: Academic Theory, Social Utopia or the New Ideology of Political Dominance? (Part II)

The Post-humanist rethinking of the current social condition put under question many important paradigms of science and technologies. New social reality is determined by progressive dissolution of the itinerary line between human being and machine. That involves three principal areas of human transformation: technological (transplantation of technical devices into human body); biological (the use of bio-technologies of genome editing, and human cloning for the development of neo-eugenic program), and ethical one (the empathic characteristics of super-human beings or bio-robots under creation). This area of investigations includes the rethinking of basic postulates of classic humanist philosophy regarding the role of human intellect, race and gender, life and death, immortality, power and violence, and creation of a new super-human being as a result of the current bio-technological transmutation. The special part of this debate is the role of artificial intellect and its controversial impact in transformation of the human condition itself. By doing this critical work, different post-humanist, or trans-humanist theorists argues the impact of cognitive sciences, neurosciences, bioethics, cybernetic, artificial intellect, new legal regulations and respective technologies in construction of a new man, family, property, society, and political order, presumably more fair, inclusive, and prosperous. The author put this complex of theories under critical analysis showing the changing place of such components as science, technology, ideology, and political implications of post-humanist movement and programmatic regarding its impact in the formation of principally new concept of social hierarchy, power and dominance, perhaps, potentially even more authoritarian than ever before. He separates populist and scientific implications of post-humanism describing it as a mental diagnosis of our epoch. Among his important conclusions is the proposal of rationalized humanism notion as theoretical alternative to post-humanism definition.