Politics of Humanism

Humanity / Non-humanity / Inhumanity (Delany response)

Nine out of ten theorists agree: Volition, while constitutive of humanity, leads immutably to anxiety (in the "doomed to freedom" sense), from which it follows that the subversion of volition is simultaneously utopian and dystopian in its socio-political impulse; it liberates us from the burden of assuming autonomous subject positions in the world, but in so doing, it undermines the very core of our being.

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