"The human" is political!

Dismantling the (hu)man is no easy task, given many cling to it as if it’s the only thing separating us from certain death. This animation pricks and thrusts at the eurocentric, patriarchal, rational human concept, with many voices denouncing its authority and asking for its abolition. The characters speak with and against each other, each with their own visual space, representation, and voice. “Man” also speaks, he is not silenced, and you can easily tell when he arrives, with his overblown self-centeredness. This dismantling of the “humanist fantasy” is a show because it is not yet manifested, because we have yet to perform it, materialize it, make it real. We are calling for imagining an open future with the human and non-human people who will be facing what the past ideal model of the (hu)man has left. The video twists around a falling of Anthropocentrism within certain philosophical thought while trying to push towards its final peak within the factual, material reality.

Inspired by feminist, anti-speciesist and posthumanist theories, the acting voices question, wonder and ultimately declare that this “human” is shaped according to just one human model, and that it must be left behind to make space for others.

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Credits:

Written by Aron Nor
Concept suggestions from M
Recorded by Oana Pușcatu, Teodora Retegan, Andrei Bobiș, Flaviu Petean & Ray Ramses
Illustrations made by Mina Mimosa
Animation by Aron Nor
Video & Audio editing by Aron Nor

Music credits:

Day of Chaos by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300040
Crossing the Threshold - Ghostpocalypse by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100663
A Singular Perversion - Darkness by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100660
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Tags: #posthuman #politicsofhumanism #dehumanism #ahumanism #(hu)man

References:

Snaza, Nathan. Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism. Duke University Press, 2019.

Trzak, Agnes. Anti-speciesist theory and action: Dismantling the (hu)man. Anglia Ruskin University, 2015.

Morton, Timothy. Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People. Verso, 2019.

Singh, Julietta. Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. Duke University Press, 2018.

Grove, Jairus Victor. Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. Duke University Press, 2019.

MacCormack, Patricia. The Animal Catalyst: towards Ahuman Theory. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Kleinherenbrink, Arjen. Against Continuity: Gilles Deleuzes Speculative Realism. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Phallologocentrism in Animal Activism: Language as Oppression, VeganKanal, www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMkU6SSvP0.

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