Friday, March 31, 2006

More on hypermodernism

It took a few more brain cycles, but the relationship between physiology and hypermodernity materialized into a somewhat coherent statement:
Whereas postmodernism views simulacra as the building blocks of the postmodern discourse, in a way that genes are the building blocks of human physiology, hypermodernism focuses the discourse on human physiology itself, where humans turn into their own simulacra through physical augmentation.
So in short, mechanization of the human body as a reaction to societal pressures, including information overload, leads to the transformation of such body into its own simulacrum.

I just realized that this thread is the continuation of a post I wrote two years ago in another blog.