Post Humanism in the Anthropocene
In adapting to the evolving world, one must become more conscious of the tight interweaving mesh of the "real and imagined, the past and future." (Peck). In Marginal worlds upon extinction, the emerging concept of post humanism highlights a new approach of becoming and evaluates/ explores the definition of being human. In understanding the branch of post humanistic connections between humans-technology-nature-relationships-subjects and so on, this continuous and rhizome sequence conveys the inevitable and continuous entanglement of co-existing and uncovering the similarities that brings each aspect into close inspection.
Moreover, in the talented works of visual artist; Mary Mattingly composes 'The inflate-able Home', her image depicts a women on the shoreline with an inflate-able balloon attached to her back. Her artwork narrates the deep connections between climate change and human extinction, the women with the balloon home evokes the evolving human that begins to use natural resources to survive in the changing world and is closely related to the discourse of post-humanism. The message reveals human participation in physically becoming one and adapting to the phenomenological world, the pregnant form of the inflate-able gives birth to a 'new' and post human/ hybrid life-form. Mattingly's usage of technology and manipulation of photography is a mode of passing into the future for imaginative documentation.
More readings of Anne Fremaux and her interpretation of the Anthropocene and its connections with post humanism and nature cultures can be explored in the links below.
Reference:
- Peck, Julia. "In A World Fit For Humans? Posthumanism And The Nature-Culture Continuum In The Prix Pictet". Photography And Culture, 2021, pp. 1-19. Informa UK Limited, doi:10.1080/17514517.2021.1890919.
- Fremaux, Anne. After the Anthropocene : Green Republicanism in a Post-Capitalist World. Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.