Spectral hermeneutics of the posthuman

Abstract

With the exponential development of algorithmic culture or, what amounts to the same thing, of
artificial intelligence, humanity is inexorably heading towards its own dissolution. Thus, who and
what counts as human today, as the author Rosi Braidotti asks, is the question that cannot be
avoided without incurring in reflexive myopia. In other words, we find ourselves in the very vortex of
that transproposing event (Ge-Stell) of which Heidegger spoke in Identity and Difference, capable of
stripping man and being of the determinations lent to them by metaphysics. Vattimo, however, for
his part, with respect to the Heideggerian Ge-Stell, points out that it should not be thought that it can
be a marginal observation, since there is surely something more serious. Indeed, far from
condemning it, he tries to take up the challenge of dealing with this phenomenon, through a
hermeneutics capable of marking the limits to the dissolution that this event provokes. It is, in short,
a hermeneutics that operates as a specter capable of threatening the consolidation of the status quo
that, with Byung-Chul Han, we can call “information regime”, making use of the ontological
difference in the critical line of Heidegger, Marcuse y Benjamin.