ABSTRACT
The final human era will be an emerging battleground fought by the key technological agencies of the twenty-first century: transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and what I call AI or mind-cities, as humans seek to enhance their powers with smart drugs, gene editing, biotech, bionic limbs, AI organs, AI brain parts, nanobots, mind-copying, and mind-downloading. The affective translations between the human body and artificial intelligence technology will lead to a new transhuman and transhuman cities – in which the distinction between person and machine, and between the virtual and real will fade. Will this be the cause for celebration? To wit: when reality becomes less real, subjectivities are easier to hijack. Thus, the affective politics of the future will be savage, because the domination of the subject will rise to a higher meta level, acting on the affective transformations of subjectivity itself, where abuses are hyperbolised and affect is revealed in its pure political state. As an agent in the anti-fascist struggle, the supercritical manifesto was derived from media stories, tech breakthroughs, and hallucinogenic prophesies, forming what J. G. Ballard might have called an Atrocity Exhibition of the future seen in the present moment. Ray Kurzweil appears as a shadow character throughout.
Kurzweil’s blog: https://www.kurzweilai.net/">https://www.kurzweilai.net/.
