Hyperhumanism & Transhumanism | Live Podcast Recording w/ Cadell Last & Carl Hayden Smith
This session forms part of the broader Voicecraft.Network expedition on the relationship between humanity, technology and nature.
It invites exploration of the meaning and question of human being through the lens of evolution (change), perennialism (continual / recurring) and our relation to technology and nature.
Something like that. Mostly to have some fun.
Cadell Last
Cadell is a philosopher with an interdisciplinary background in fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychoanalysis, complexity science, and big history. He has spent much of his life searching for the truth of being through questions about the difference between humans and nature, and the consequences of human difference for nature. His PhD thesis, Global Brain Singularity, places biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation, and speculative futures in discussion, which produces insight that he then enhances through his expertise on thinkers like Hegel, Freud, Žižek, and Zupančič.
There are many videos of Cadell speaking across these topics and more. The first episode of the Philosophy of Lack series is a powerful introduction to the mode of discourse found at Philosophy Portal.
Carl Hayden Smith
Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) at the Institute for Creativity & Technology, Ravensbourne University London.
Raising over £10 million in research funding, he has led numerous teams on large-scale international projects including Erasmus+, FP7, Horizon 2020, Innovate UK and the XPRIZE. His research focuses broadly on the relationship between technology and the human condition. Carl is developing ‘Hyperhumanism’ which reframes technology as a catalyst for developing our own innate human abilities. His other research interests include Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Context Engineering, Umwelt Hacking, Natural Media, Sensory Augmentation, Extended Senses and Embodiment. His additional projects include AR4EU (Code Reality), Hobs Academy, and Holotechnica. He is also co-founder of the Cyberdelic Society and founder of the Museum of Consciousness. He has given over 300 public lectures, conference presentations and keynotes across 60 countries and published more than 50 academic papers.
Carl has recently been on the Voicecraft podcast where we approached the topic of Hyperhumanism in relation to conscience and extended state DMT, available to watch here:
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