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HOMO ARTEFACTUS AND PROMETHEAN SHAME: REFLECTIONS ON JOSEF ČAPEK, FUTURISM, TRANSHUMANISM, POST-HUMANISM, AND THE OBVIOUS

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Odorčák J.

World Literature Studies

2021

vol. 13

issue 1

68 - 80

This paper is focused on an analysis of Josef Čapek ’s notion of technology and his scrutiny of the conflicting nature of the avant-garde movement of Futurism in relation to the contemporary assumptions of the processual philosophies of transhumanism and post-humanism. The analysis is reconstructed in the narrative setting of the technological and methodological hybridization of the categories of the human and post-human (Homo artefactus) and is inspired by Josef Čapek’s approach to a specific philosophical question: Why would anyone want to create a post-human, a “robot Picasso”? It is argued that Josef Čapek projected that some of the motivational assumptions about the creation of post-humans would be built upon the inconsistent stigmatization of the human by humans that envy the hypothetical superiority of post-humans (i.e., Promethean shame).

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HOMO ARTEFACTUS AND PROMETHEAN SHAME: REFLECTIONS ON JOSEF ČAPEK, FUTURISM, TRANSHUMANISM, POST-HUMANISM, AND THE OBVIOUS