Human / non human

The seminar Human/Non-human: superhuman, human, subhuman proposes a critical reflection on the boundaries and redefinitions of the human through different historical, political, scientific and cultural contexts. Starting with disturbing images such as Eugène Thivier’s Le Cauchemar, the presentations will address figures of transhumanism, contemporary dehumanisation and the limits of the political and symbolic body. From augmented brains to exploitable bodies, via the exhibition of a dying dictator, forms of disarticulation of the human condition will be analysed. The second session will transport us to the Golden Age and the confessional era, exploring the demonic and the anti-Christian as figures that strain humanity. An interdisciplinary encounter that invites us to think about the instability of the concept of “human".