ABSTRACT
While etymologically distinct, from Latin and Arabic, the words ‘human’ and ‘hummus’ share a common metaphorical imagery. They both allude to the earth and, more pointedly, to dirt. To be human, in this sense, means to come from the earth, from a poesis of dust. The anti-Protagorean view of posthumanism works across theories of objects and reality in Object-Oriented Ontology, Speculative Realism, and the New Materialism. The Jetsons view works across competing claims of philosophers of science, scientists, and futurist venture capitalists. This chapter demonstrates some flaws embedded in the theological implications of posthumanism and then briefly points towards the tragic hope of atheistic education as an appropriate humanistic response to it. Troubling Method is perhaps more synoptic than apocryphal, but the main point is to simply show that the structure and conditions of emergence of this text holds an important lesson about the kind of work we can make as curriculum scholars.
