A Veia Pragmática do Inumanismo

Abstract

This article seeks to investigate the idea of ”‹”‹inhumanism as an offshoot of the Enlightenment, understood as a continuous and extended program. The starting point for this approach will be the article “Labor of the Inhuman”, published in 2014 by Reza Negarestani. We will maintain here that the core of the inhuman project is an attitude of intervention, manifested in the constant struggle for an adequate content for the concept of human. Throughout the text, the reason for this struggle is to begin with a pragmatic investigation of the ramifications resulting from our commitments in saying that we are human. And also the reason why it works as a way of overcoming anti-humanism and a cognitive servitude present in several forms of recent political and philosophical thought, mainly in what Negarestani calls kitsch Marxism. This whole process demands an adequate understanding of the organizational and functional structure of the prescription, and of the description systems that need to be made explicit by the mediation of a collective work. As humans, we need to properly understand how we are and how we came to be so, only then will we know what to do and how to do to transform ourselves according to what we should be, according to the compulsory collectivization of reason.