Jaime del Val in Dubrovnik 2012
International Conference - Transforming the Human - Interuniversity
Centre Dubrovnik
12 September 12'00:
Ecology of affects: From Bioethics to Kinethics
A metahumanist ontology of movement
Metahumanism proposes an ecological approach to reality, understood as
field of relational forces, or affects to which we are not exterior to one
another. Developing such an ecology of affects requires two complementary
processes: to deprogramme subjects and bodies with regard to the choreographies
of affects that they reproduce within normative (non-ecological, moralist,
dualist) regimes (that are stratified according to capitalstic and other older
disciplinary structures); and the development of techniques that set bodies
in motion in ecological, immanent relational manners, whereby the production
of relational ecologies implies the setting to motion of affective, technological
and natureculatural ecosystemas in which to foster the emergence of the new,
imponderable and heterogeneous, while hindering the emergenece and sustainment
of violent power relaitons. Undoing the arbitrary dualism that construes the
subject as external to the object and to other subjects is necessary for such
an immanent approach. A number of metahuman techniques, practices and projects
will be exposed in which relational ecologies are eventually set to motion.