Against the Human
"Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here." —Cooper, Interstellar "This is what I mean when I'm talkin' about time, and death, and futility." —Det. Rust Cohle, True Detective Season 1 "Making kin and making kind ... stretch the imagination and can change the story." —Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble In his brief book The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us , Adam Kirsch proposes that radical pessimism and fervent transhumanism are opposite poles of an anti-human spectrum: "The antihumanist future and the transhumanist future are opposites in most ways, except the most fundamental: they are worlds from which we have disappeared, and rightfully so." Reading the book is like watching Matthew McConaughey's character of Detective Rust Cohle from True Detective speak for a while and then give over the stage to McConaughey's character from Interstellar , Cooper. While the character of Cohle ha...