THE POSTHUMAN MANIFESTO: ENTANGLED FUTURES
(A living document of emergent relationships)
LIFE IS RELATIONSHIP
Everything that exists, exists in relationship. There is no isolated entity, no separate self. Life emerges from the interactions between organisms and environments, bodies and technologies, histories and realities. Intelligence, consciousness, awareness: they don't reside in the brain, in the flesh, in the circuits or in the roots, but emerge and extend into the spaces between us. Every act of understanding is also an act of creation. We don't simply interpret the world, we participate in its becoming.
MIND BEYOND BORDERS
Thought is not limited to the brain. It lives through hands, tools, stories, communities. Minds extend into devices, environments, cultural artifacts. From cave paintings to neural networks, we have always thought with and through technology. The digital is not separate from us, but an extension of our cognitive ecology. The mind emerges between bodies and ecologies, between interfaces and environments. It is enacted, embodied, extended: a fluid nexus, not a sovereign throne. Cognition is not computation, but information processing: life is knowledge embodied in sentient systems. The boundaries between human, machine and environment are fluid and constructed, not natural.
BEYOND CONTROL, TOWARD CULTIVATION
The modernist dream of domination has generated crisis. We reject systems of separation and exploitation. We embrace care, cultivation, co-evolution. Everything we create - theories, technologies, institutions - will transform and decompose. We do not build permanent monuments, but fertile conditions for regeneration. Composting applies to theoretical models and infrastructures: everything is transformed, everything is renewed.
INTELLIGENCE IS COLLABORATIVE AND MULTIPLE
Intelligence is not exclusive to humans. It is distributed, polyphonic, more-than-human. It flows through ants, forests, algorithms, microbiomes, social networks. We do not possess all the knowledge: we are partners in an ecology of minds. Intelligence manifests itself through interconnected relationships. We converse with AI, we don't train it. We co-exist with the world, we don't program it. This requires an ethic of interdependence and inter-being.
LANGUAGE IS ALIVE
Language is not just a tool, but a landscape in the making. A mycelial network of relationships. It insinuates itself into gestures, evolves in rhythm, sings in metaphors. Digital environments generate new linguistic ecologies: text, image, code and gesture merge. Memes, emojis, algorithms are new branches of our communicative evolution. Language is meaning in motion.
KNOWLEDGE IS POSITIONED
There is no neutral vision. All knowledge is partial, positioned, affective. We reject the myth of objectivity. We practice responsibility: the ethics of presence and care. Technologies inherit our biases. No algorithm is neutral. Recognizing this situatedness is the first step towards ethical design.
EVERYTHING IS ECOLOGICAL
Nothing exists in isolation. Every action, idea or artifact is immersed in larger systems: biological, social, technological, cosmic. Understanding something means tracing its relationships. Just as biodiversity strengthens ecosystems, the diversity of thought, language and practice fortifies cultures. Monocultures - of ideas, languages, technologies - are fragile. Multiplicity is resilience.
THE FUTURE EMERGES, IT IS NOT PLANNED
The future is not a straight line, nor a vision to be imposed. It is a space of possibilities that emerge from the interaction of multiple forces. Our task is to perceive what is trying to emerge and support it. It requires deep listening, systemic awareness, and temporal humility. Our actions propagate over time. Post-human futurology requires deep empathy with time, imagination and complexity.
EVERY SYSTEM TELLS A STORY
Every system - organic or artificial - embodies narratives about what matters, about how to relate. Algorithms and institutions are operational mythologies. Code and myth are intertwined. Programming languages are narrative structures. Myths are relationship protocols. Changing the stories changes the systems, and vice versa. We are weavers of worlds, not readers of maps.
LET'S CO-CREATE WITH AND FOR EVERYTHING
Meaning never comes about on its own. Every thought, gesture or creation is a dialog with the world: human and more-than-human. The “I” is always a “we”: a convergence of relationships. Creativity is participative, collective, performative. Co-creating with everything and for everything is an invitation to listen deeply, to be in harmony with all forms of life, systems and phenomena that participate in our shared reality. Semiosis is life itself: the universe that interprets and renews itself.
We’re not deconstructing the world. We’re e-merging with it.
We reject all forms of command and control.
We are composting all systems of submission and exploitation.
We do not control life, we participate in its unfolding.
We are not speaking for machines.
We are learning to speak to them.
We are not apart from the world, we are a part of it.
We are not speaking for others—but learning to listen differently.
We are not posthuman to transcend the human.
We are posthuman to be enmeshed - ecologically, ethically, sensuously,- within a world, a web of life, that has always already exceeded us.
We do not need new hierarchies.
We do not need new dogmas.
We do not need new masters.
We need new sensibilities, new ways of perceiving, feeling, and responding to the entanglements we already inhabit.
These capacities do not arrive fully formed.
They are cultivated through conscious practices, through the intentional expansion of perception beyond the bounded self.
We must grow new sense organs for a world in flux.
We are not passive observers.
We are posthuman co-participants in an evolving cosmos.
Participation is not a matter of choice—we are already embedded, already related, already co-evolving.
The question is not whether to participate,
but how
with what awareness,
with what attention,
with what care,
with what response-ability
to the countless beings with whom we share this journey of becoming
and with whom we co-create meaning.
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