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Superhumanity This page intentionally left blank Superhumanity: Design of the Self Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley, Editors e-flux Architecture University of Minnesota Press The Graham Foundation This page intentionally left blank Contents 77 Are They Human? Eyal Weizman 9 Introduction 89 Designer and Discarded Genomes Ruha Benjamin 13 Self-Design, or 95 Productive Narcissism Spaces of the Learning Self Boris Groys Tom Holert 19 103 No You’re Not History for an Empty Future Keller Easterling Sylvia Lavin 25 111 Prescribing Reflection Masters and Slaves Brooke Holmes Lydia Kallipoliti 33 119 Cardboard for Humanity On Snow Dancing Andrew Herscher Ina Blom 43 127 Carceral Architectures In the Skin of a Lion, Mabel O. Wilson a Leopard … a Man Lesley Lokko 55 Some Sketches on 135 Vertical Geographies As if by Design Trevor Paglen Raqs Media Collective 69 143 Mass Gestaltung An Apology to Survivors Zeynep Çelik Alexander MAP Office 149 215 Couple Format: Our Heads Are Round, The Identity between Our Hands Irregular Love and Work Hu Fang Shumon Basar 221 159 The Birth of Design Lesser Worlds Spyros Papapetros Felicity D. Scott 231 169 Beyond the Gene Spatial Thought Alexander Tarakhovsky Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein 235 Aestheticization 177 and Democratic Culture Down with the World Juliane Rebentisch Tony Chakar 247 185 Beyond the Self The One-Foot Shop Jack Self Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty 255 The Duck Is the 193 Übermensch Designer Sex Chus Martínez Rubén Gallo 265 201 Amplified Humanity and Storage Space the Architectural Criminal Giuliana Bruno Lucia Allais 209 283 Real Estate Porn; or, Facilities for Correction How to Liberate Us from Francesca Hughes Being Slaves of Our Own Houses 293 Ingo Niermann In the Forest Ruins Paulo Tavares 305 365 After the Third End The Matter of Scale Ahmet Öğüt Pelin Tan 309 373 Surrogacity: On Anthropolysis Just like James Franco Benjamin H. Bratton Andrés Jaque 379 315 Blockchain Future States We Are Red Parakeets Simon Denny Mark Cousins 383 321 Right-wing Spaces How to Kill People: Stephan Trüby A Problem of Design Hito Steyerl 393 Our Vectors, Ourselves 329 Kali Stull and Self-Engineering Etienne Turpin Franco “Bifo” Berardi 405 335 Analysis: Synthesis I Spy with My Machine Eye Sophia Roosth Liam Young 411 347 The Story of Peter Green Art without Death Peter Chang Arseny Zhilyaev Brian Kuan Wood in conversation with Anton Vidokle 419 The Return of the 359 Have-Lived Workplace Aesthetics Yongwoo Lee Might Not Be Enough Liam Gillick 427 “Or are we human beings?” Thomas Keenan 439 Biographies 443 Image Credits Introduction Superhumanity is first and foremost a question, a self-question, even a radical questioning of the self. It is not a species, a thing, a condition, or a phenomenon. It is not supercharged humans extended by shiny tech- nologies and ideologies—as if the creature with a cell phone in its hand is existentially different from the creature holding a stone axe. Rather, it is an all-too-human questioning of the very category “human.” The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial of 2017—“ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design Of The Species: 2 Seconds, 2 Days, 2 Years, 200 Years, 200,000 Years”—made the following proposition: “Design is always design of the human.” Design, then, is the very means by which that question is asked. The Biennial explored the radical implications of the thought that we have always been continuously reshaped by the arti- facts that we have shaped. If the penetration of design into life is any measure to go by, perhaps we have never been more human than we are today. As the Biennial manifesto points out: The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach to outer space but also reach deep into our bodies and brains. We literally live inside design, like the spider lives inside the web constructed from inside its own body. But 9
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