#antihuman exploitation

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Who do yall think would look good wearing this? Nazis? Warmonger? Human traffickers? Racists? Violators of human rights?

[scottishcommune]

If systems theory divests nonhuman life of its specificity, biocentrism and antihumanism divest human life of social development. Society becomes an abstraction that somehow is inflicted upon “Nature” without any regard for such social characteristics as hierarchy, domination, and the state. As a result, a simplistic biologism emerges, often structured around “natural laws,” that sees “Man” and humanism as a curse that afflicts “Nature” with ecological degradation. As a result, some voices in the ecology movement call for a moral “biospheric democracy” in which humanity’s “right” to live and fulfill itself is equatable with that same “right” in butterflies, ants, whales, apes, and — yes — pathogenic viruses and germs.

Viewed heuristically, biocentrism is an effort to bridle “human” arrogance toward other life-forms and defy the present destruction of the biosphere. But how long one can continue to belabor “humanity” for its affronts to the biosphere without distinguishing between rich and poor, men and women, whites and people of color, exploiters and exploited, is a nagging problem that many ecological philosophers have yet to resolve, or perhaps even recognise. Biocentrism, for all the caveats its supporters issue to qualify it, strikes me as bluntly misanthropic and less an ecological principle than an argument against the human species itself as a life-form.

- Murray Bookchin, Thinking Ecologically: A Dialectical Approach

[limetarte]

Reality shifting post

Remember, your DR is just as real as this CR. Shifting to a reality where people treat each other wrongly, where there are systems of oppression and where there’s a lot of accepted violence, means that you’re gonna experience all those horrors. Imagine if it was like this in this CR, how would that make you feel?

Media has glorified exploitation, violence and injustice so much that now many people accept it, or even find it captivating and fun (mostly in fiction). How does this relate to reality shifting? Many people struggle at realizing that their DR isn’t fiction, but reality, which isn’t inherently wrong, it’s a hard concept to fully grasp. The thing is that, because of media and struggling to understand that your DR is real, it makes people want to shift to a violent, oppressive, unjust reality. Take for example, how many people shift to a DR inspired by or that are the same to a specific show/movie/series, considering how violence, injustice and oppression are a part of almost every single show/movie/series that exists, and are definitely a part of the popular ones people generally shift to, it means that you are shifting to a violent, oppressive and unjust reality. It means accepting them as okay.

Another thing wanna mention, is to shift to a kpop idol or celebrity reality would mean to shift to an exploitative, capitalist, oppressive, unjust, antihuman, antinature and violent reality. It also means accepting it as okay. /srs, npa, gen

[howieabel]

“It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense.” ― Noam Chomsky, Chomsky On Anarchism

[baoyiyuan]

Independent projects｜#06

Antihumanism

Focus: questioning the nature of humanity, the relationship between creatures and the environment, morality, coexistence, etc. Anti-human is usually a way of thinking that questions the centrality of humans in the world, specifically meaning that humans cannot be seen as a special beings beyond other creatures and the environment. Generally, anthropocentric means that only humans have value and power and that other creatures and nature are resources at our service. Such thinking is important for us to be able to better understand and protect the natural environment, to care for the welfare of animals and to rethink our use and exploitation of other species. Then there is also controversy and criticism of anti-humanism, in which some people argue that this idea ignores human culture and the particularity of human beings, but I believe that this, like post-humanism, is a critical concept that extends based on the current society and environment, in order to advance the thinking of human progress and development. Posthumanism entails the denial of human existence, while antihumanism questions the centrality of the human being.

In terms of species invasion, it is true that behind the act of humans going about eradicating red fire ants is the centrality of humans to nature, which is all about resources that serve us, and when there are species that harm our resources, we categorise them as invasive in nature.

Keywords: human beings/nature / ecology/sustainability / utopia/symbiosis

[itunesbooks]

Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff

Team Human Douglas Rushkoff Genre: Social Science Price: $11.99 Publish Date: January 22, 2019 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Seller: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. “A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.”—Walter Isaacson Team Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together—not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups. Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point.” Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity—together—we can make the world a better place to be human. http://dlvr.it/R3KzZv

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Most numerous, however, were films about people on the fringes of capitalist society. Such films echoed what Timothy Johnston identifies as the three central themes of Soviet anti-Western propaganda: workers struggling under economic and racial exploitation; the spuriousness of “capitalist democracy”; and the “soulless, economically driven nature of capitalist society” that caused “gangsterism” and cynicism to be rife in the West. These themes evoked a society divided by exploitation, which was an image that resonated with many Depression-era productions. As Kruzhkov and Sazonov later observed, among the captured reels were “films essentially exposing American pseudodemocracy and the antipopular policies of the imperialist circles of America.” More specifically, Bol'shakov and his team found that The Road of Affliction (Doroga bedstvii, 1948; The Grapes of Wrath, dir. John Ford, 1940) presented “two Americas: the flashy capitalist elite, who possess all the wealth of the country, and an enormous proportion of the population who are huddled in miserable hovels, without the means for a piece of bread.” Adaptations of Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and William Shakespeare were similarly deemed to reveal the oppressions of capitalism. Meanwhile, the Humphrey Bogart crime drama Slums of the Big City (Trushchoby bol'shogo goroda, 1948; Dead End, dir. William Wyler, 1937) was recommended for its depiction of the “desperate and hopeless [besperspektivnoe] situation of the inhabitants of the city’s outskirts [and] American gangsterism.” The boxing film Eighth Round (Vos'moi raund, 1948; The Crowd Roars, dir. Richard Thorpe, 1938) similarly uncovered the “gangster-like morals and dirty back room dealings of American sports.” Political comedy-dramas like Capra’s Senator, Dominated by the Dollar (Vo vlasti dollara, 1949; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936) and Meet John Doe (Poznakom'tes' s Dzhonom Dou, 1941) likewise illustrated the Soviet claim that Western democracy was corrupted by “big money” and cronyism—although a degree of creative editing was necessary to erase the redemptive message of these films, which ultimately saw the “little man” positively affect the political system. These films, if handled attentively, provided prime material with which to critique the unenlightened antihumanism of capitalism and imply a contrast with Soviet culture by defining it in terms of what it was not: divided, corrupt, exploitative, soulless, and cynical.

– Claire Knight, “Enemy Films on Soviet Screens: Trophy Films during the Early Cold War, 1947–52,” Kritika 18.1 (Winter 2017), 136-7.

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