Thursday, January 7, 2010

the inhuman within the human

That “art bears witness to the inhuman within the human” as Badiou has said partially explains the privileging of art for the understanding of the post-human developing within what remains of the human in that the post-human is by definition inhuman. We care about art, and that is part of our humanity. Art does not care about us, and helps to prepare us to give up our care, without pity.

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