#human garde

[tbhcatsaresocute]

we need to talk about the fact sam literally set mark james house on fire more

[evawoez]

14. Hanging out

some art of the human grade watching a scary movie (it's The nightmare before christmas, Kopano is absolutely terrified)

List was made by: @new-lorien-artist check him out!

[kip-loric]

I don't know if my previous ask pulled through, but I'm wondering if you have any favorite Human Garde character outside of the Fugitive Six?

It did, but I was debating on waiting on answering until I read Sam and Six's novellas because from what I've heard I think I'll really like Nemo and Max.

But right now I'm really interested in Einar. I don't know if I *like* him, but he's definitely trying to make a positive difference for the rest of the garde. His and Five’s relationship kinda gets me because they both get something out of it (Five gets Einar's legacy to calm him down, and Einar gets Five’s power), but sometimes it feels like Einar is kinda using/manipulating Five a little.

I REALLY like Vontessa (or however you spell her name) and the idea of some Mogadorian's also getting legacies. I definitely think Adam and Rex got some, but they're never mentioned? No one even really wonders about it except for Vontessa?? We don't know if John goes to check on Adam ever again after the end of the first series??I'm kinda mad about that part...sorry for mini mog rant...

[simpforsix]

I don't know if my previous ask pulled through, but I'm wondering if you have any favorite Human Garde character outside of the Fugitive Six?

it did dw, i've been busy with work lol (fuck customers i hate them) but here's my answer!

obviously just outside of the fugitive six it'd be sam, but i assume you're asking about non-main characters. i know she's not technically a HUMAN-garde, but vontezza is very cool and i wish we knew more about her, so she's probably my favourite. of the humans, daniela is my favourite. her legacy is cool (love medusa) and i always love when the human characters insult the garde because it's very funny. thanks for the ask!

[samglyph]

Running out of time, so a quick something for @malevoversary - Birthday/ Arthur & John

Bonus:

[zegalba]

Jordan Arthur Smith: Post Human Prelude (2022)

[cosmiicchaoss]

a piece for my art history class [tags for info]

[b6d11f]

i don't want to start any blasphemous rumors but i think that god's got a sick sense of humor and when i die i expect to find him laughing

[ll-but-its-random]

Some time, at the HGA:

Caleb: Anytime Nigel starts telling me a story from his childhood I brace myself to hear the most traumatically insane story I have ever heard. Nigel: IT WAS FUNNY! FUCK OFF! Caleb: I will personally pay for your therapy. --- Nine: Would you like a drink? Malcolm: What are my options? Nine: Yes or no. --- Kopano: *screams* Isabela: *screams louder to assert dominance* Ran: Shouldn't we do something? Nigel: No, I want to see who wins this. --- Nicholas, while gaming: Uh... hold on a second. Maiken, I'm lagging. Maiken: *looks over* Maiken: Why do you have 61 tabs open? --- Lofton: I want to do something new for Halloween. What should I be? Isabela: A decent person, how about that. --- Nine: What would you do if I got kidnapped? Lexa: Wait 30 minutes until they return you voluntarily. --- News reporter: A group of teens are now in police custody after causing an explosion in an aquarium. Nine: God, kids these days can't even not get caught. News reporter: We're listening to what they have to say. On TV: *Kopano getting pushed into a police car kicking and screaming, Ran being handcuffed, Taylor trying to explain to the officers, Nigel laughing, Caleb crying, Isabela flashing the peace sign to the cameras* Kopano, to the camera: PROFESSOR NINE, HELP US!!!! Nine: Oh fuck, they're my kids. --- Einar:

[liminalgardens]

Image: Alone with the Gods, Piccinini, 2016

Posthumanist Art

Posthumanism is an invitation to reconfigure our existence, redirect our attention, and reconnect with others (human, nonhuman, technology, and ecosystems), not in a romantic but in a responsible, engaged, respectful, and never-objectifying way...

The first philosophical traces of the radical shifts that will thereafter become known as posthumanism became visible at the end of the nineteenth century in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, only to resurface during the second half of the last century in the poststructural work of Michele Foucault, Judith Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Jacques Derrida.

These philosophers were among the first to wrestle with the acknowledgment that the boundaries that define the human are a dangerous cultural construct. Their target was the blinkeredness of anthropocentrism — a byproduct of humanism: the Renaissance dogma that put humans on a pedestal and made us the measure of all things. - Flash Art

Image: The Pollinators Pavilion, Lily Landes

Flashback to 1992: curator Jeffrey Deitch traveled between Lausanne, Turin, Athens, Hamburg, and Jerusalem ( bypassing the  USA and other world art capitals) with a cutting-edge exhibition of 36 avant-garde artists who were foregrounding a moment in technology culture in the early internet age when outmoded binary boundaries between subjects and objects, human and non-humans were being blurred. 

The carnivalesque exhibition, Post Human showed that body improvement that celebrated artificiality was becoming the new normality: plastic surgery, diet pills, and mind-altering drugs could enhance humans beyond their wildest fantasies.

The success of the exhibition showed that art was assuming a more central role by merging with science, computerization, and biotechnology to reshape the human form and identity with an outlandish flair for embracing the artificial. The controversial message was disseminated by the European press and quickly reached the up-and-coming younger artists and art schools around the world. The adoration of the inorganic over the natural was becoming habitual to some while others felt the human race was becoming an endangered species. - White Hot Magazine

Image: To See the Earth Before the End of the World, by Precious Okoyomon

While it is a commonly accepted fact that humans are essentially animals, we continue to place ourselves in opposition to animals and other life forms. Posthumanism suggests that we should stop thinking of ourselves as superior to the rest of the planet and accept that we are part of nature...

Taking a posthuman perspective, we may start by asking a deeper question: why do we continue to associate the word ‘humane’ with lack of cruelty? After all, no animal is as cruel and destructive as the human animal. We need to take a good look in the mirror and ask ourselves whether ‘the human’ should really be used as an ethical standard.

Likewise, we must face the even more difficult ethical question of whether the preservation of the human should always be put above all else. Does the saving of human lives justify the destruction of our planet and the killing of other animals? - The Collector

Image: Post Human at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles

[tbhcatsaresocute]

rereading united as one and i just forgot how much of an insane mental load was on ella. she died, came back to life, was one with a existential being for a period of time, still has some of that entity within her, can and has seen MULTIPLE futures, im just like wow

[utilitycaster]

I do not want to add to my "every person on D&D posts" post because I already get weird enough comments as is but another one is definitely "person who think they are subverting the system and talks about this but is in fact either playing extremely within the system, or is subverting the system in the dumbest way imaginable"

[kip-loric]

Caleb Crane is either bi, aroace, or the straightest guy alive

[theaskew]

František Drtikol (Czech 1883–1961, Temná vlna (The Dark Wave), 1926. Photograph, pigment print, mounted on board. 7 ¼ x 11 in. | 18.4 x 27.9 cm.

[pasdetrois]

elizabeth marie pope really revolutionized the game when she decided to write a ballad of tam lin retelling about the relationship between janet and the queen of the fairies, while tam lin just incidentally happened to be there

[bjorkisbaddie]

Björk when she was in the Icelandic punk band The Sugarcubes (late 1980s)