Interview with Angelo Giubileo To the Novacene?
It’s
not a dream, but it’s our reality
D
Angelo, a new stage of production for your original
"philosophical-scientific" journey, as you stated in a sort
of balance sheet of years of research Did you start with Parmenide
2.0, have you crossed the future with the so-called Transhumanism,
now?
R-
I answer by using a Latin phrase hic et nunc, here and now. I repeat
it here too: we live in a state of "eternal return" and to
some extent of the "equal", expressing the expression
"eternal return" it indicates a rather mental
representation that continually tends to go beyond the physical space
in which, vice versa, every "entity" dwells, in the manner
of Heidegger and according to the saying of Parmenides and of the
pre-Socratic physicists or whatever epoch, latitude or longitude we
refer to in the past and in the present.
D.
Angelo, where is contemporary philosophy going?
R-
We have been seeing for about a century and beyond a new horizon of
meaning capable of projecting beyond the limits (in the form of the
"apeiron" of Anaximander) of an entire multi-millennial era
that we call "anthropocentric" towards a new posthuman era
"which, in the present, we call in a rather generic and vague
way" Novacene ".
D.
And the future, visionary crazy transhumanists or scientific
futurists?
R-
Between the two expressions, I would say rather "scientific
futurists", remembering that in ancient times the first
"philosophers" were first of all "physical". In
the original language of physicists - unlike the therefore derived
language of metaphysicians, what Aristotle makes clear without a
shadow of doubt - is in fact what was then called "matter"
to precede any possible "form" of the logos, and not vice
versa as then it is mostly in history, but I would say above all
traditionally happened.
D.
So, how do you think or even read the future that awaits us?
R-
It is an oracle or prophecy which, however, I do not subtract from
it. Already before the last ice age, Homo Sapiens had begun to bend
Nature to its own needs. Later, we learned to make more use of the
energy present in our ecosystem, transforming ourselves from
gatherers and hunters into farmers, developing the main activity of
taming plants and animals. For over a century, I said, we have
instead the greater ambition to exploit the cosmic energy understood,
as the scientific divulger Jim Baggott explains, as a "common
characteristic of the whole universe". That is not the "hard
and impenetrable atoms" of Democritus and the others but "the
energy of the fields. It will not be the dream to which the
philosophers clung, but it is still a dream "which, I add, has
become or is about to become reality. And in fact, it is not the
"myth of the Silicon Valley", somehow I hope to have shown
that it is much more, or the destiny (posthuman or transhuman) that
belongs to us.
(edited
by R. Guerra)
Angelo
Giubileo
(Salerno, Italy). Philosopher and journalist (deputy director
Pensalibero). He has published, among other things: Parmenide 2.0 and
La Tecno Mente dell'Imperatore (Red Donkey eBook), The Being and the
Nothing in the Age of Technology (La Carmelina), in the collective
T-Day Transhumanism of Daily Life (Armando publisher). He also writes
on some web publications on philosophy and in particular
Academia.edu. In recent years he has been one of the main humanist
promoters of futurology, transhumanist and futurist.