{"id":274121,"date":"2024-09-23T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=274121"},"modified":"2024-09-18T07:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:17:01","slug":"is-there-a-post-human-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/is-there-a-post-human-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Post-Human Sexuality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>7 Sep 2024 <\/em>&#8211; Will human sexuality survive the passage to Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question properly, we should first analyze the paradoxical inner structure of sexuality itself, which is never simply binary: it always involves a third element that gives body to the deadlock of sexual difference \u2013 this is what Lacan meant by \u201cthere is no sexual difference.\u201d This is why sexuality is in itself excessive and perverse. For this reason, all attempts to \u201cnormalize\u201d sexuality by way of keeping it within the limits of moderation miserably fail: today, we find on the market products deprived of their dangerous element (coffee without caffeine, chocolate without sugar\u2026), and the moderate sexuality is sexuality without sex.<\/p>\n<p>The Buddhist attempts to contain the excess sexuality miss the point of sexuality: intense sexuality is in itself the greatest sacrifice (the sacrifice of peaceful moderate life) \u2013 in sexuality, we enjoy the pain, the renunciation itself. However, today, in our world pervaded by commodification and technological inventions, real human partners are more and more replaced by what Lacan called lathouses, artificial objects aimed at satisfying our sexual desire without another human being (plastic phalluses, digitalized pornography). The result is that we are thrown into a space of limitless pleasures where, although \u201ceverything is permitted,\u201d our intense sexual desire gets anaestheticized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To read full paper download PDF file: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Is-There-a-Post-Human-Sexuality.pdf\" >Is There a Post-Human Sexuality<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Slavoj-Zizek-e1558870888237.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Slavoj-Zizek-e1558870888237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a> Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, a Slovenian cultural philosopher and psychoanalyst, is senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. \u017di\u017eek is the author of many books, including<\/em> Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy Then As Farce, The Fragile Absolute <em>and <\/em>Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? <em>He lives in London.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/123809426\/Is_There_A_Post_Human_Sexuality\" >Go to Original \u2013 academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER<\/em> STAYS POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Sep 2024 &#8211; Will human sexuality survive the passage to Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question properly, we should first analyze the paradoxical inner structure of sexuality itself, which is never simply binary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[1733,520,2054,858,1170,984,308,723,593],"class_list":["post-274121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-the-week","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-human-behaviors","tag-human-nature","tag-humans","tag-life","tag-paradigm-change","tag-philosophy","tag-research","tag-sexualities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274126,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274121\/revisions\/274126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}