Post-Growth Living

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Kate Soper. Post-Growth Living

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Post-Growth Living

For an AlternativeHedonism

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In their recent ‘accelerationist’ case for a technically driven post-work future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams likewise enthuse about the contribution of ‘cyborg augmentations, artificial life, synthetic biology and technologically mediated reproduction’ to a posthumanist ‘synthetic freedom’, insisting that there is no authentic human essence to be realised and associating all such talk with a limited and ‘parochial’ humanism. (Although quite how this anti-essentialist position coheres with their own polemic against the ills heaped on human beings by capitalism, or their presentation of the contrasting fulfilments to be realised in a post-capitalist future, remains unclear).34

There are notable contrasts between these various types of argument, and it may therefore be misleading to assimilate them under a general posthumanist umbrella (Haraway has herself rejected the term). But they share several themes: the merging of nature and culture; the decentring of the humanist subject; the view that human–animal dualism obstructs ethical guidance on the treatment of non-human animals; a resistance to accepting human exceptionality. There is also, normatively speaking, some general agreement that the ecological crisis of unprecedented proportions now faced by humans and other species has been encouraged by the errors of ‘dualist’ and ‘humanist’ thinking.

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