ABSTRACT
Speculative posthumanism is the claim that such beings might be produced as part of a feasible future history. However, the fictive avatars of posthumanity that have occupied us in the preceeding chapters suggest that the differences between humans and posthumans could be so great as to render accounting impossible, or problematic in the cases that matter. SP states that a future history of a general type is metaphysically and technically possible. It does not imply that the posthuman would improve on the human or MOSH state, or that there would be a commonly accessible perspective from which to evaluate human and posthuman lives. A plausible analogy for the emergence of posthumans, as Vinge observes, is the evolutionary process that differentiated humans from nonhuman primates. The concept of assemblage was developed by the poststructuralist philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. However, the diachronically emergent nature of disconnection implies that such a demonstration is not possible prior to a disconnection event.
