PROGRAMME

8th BEYOND HUMANISM CONFERENCE / 8º CONGRESO MAS ALLÁ DEL HUMANISMO

Posthuman Studies and technologies of Control / Estudios Posthumanos y Tecnologías de Control
Universidad Complutense de Madrid 25-27 May 2016
www.beyondhumanism2016.org

Wednesday 25th May / Miércoles 25 de Mayo

ASSEMBLY HALL - BUILDING D - PHILOLOGY FACULTY SEMINAR ROOM 217 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY ROOM S-30 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY
SALÓN DE ACTOS - EDIFICIO D - FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA SEMINARIO 217 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA SEMINARIO 30 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA

9'30 - Reception and inscriptions

10'00 - Opening and welcome
10'30 - Coffee in Building D 11'00-13'00 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH 11'00-12'00 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH
11´00 – 13'00 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH - - CHAIR: MARIANO RODRIGUEZ - CHAIR: FRANCESCA FERRANDO
CHAIR: S. L. SORGNER (Re)pensar lo humano Singularity and Transcendence 1
Philosophy of technology 1 Nuria Sánchez Madrid (UCM): La antropogénesis y la Stefan Grosu (Ph.D. Student at the University of
Daniel Andersson: The Concept of Noosphere in distinción sonora: Aristóteles y Nietzsche en torno a Bucharest): Transhumanism in the Conception of
Systems Analysis for Sustainability: Unpredictability and la distinción entre psóphos, phoné y lógos. John Paul II.
Complexity, between Bateson and Earth System
Analysis. Emma Ingala (UCM): Humanos catacréticos para Adriana M. Macsut.: Eternal Life in Transhumanism
una antropología política antihumanista y no and Catholic Doctrine.
Eduardo Trajano Gadret: Cryptography Standards and antropocéntrica: Judith Butler y Étienne Balibar
Technical Barriers in the TransPacific Partnership.
Jaime Pascual Summers (UCM): Foucault y Deleuze:
Yannis Mazarakis: Mind-Uploading: A Postmodern End sobre la determinación e impugnación de la
of Humanity or a Neomodern Beginning. humanidad en la constitución del discurso
psicopatológico
Kevin LaGrandeur (New York Institute of Technology &
IEET): Smart Machines and the Future of Work: Can We Amanda Nuñez (UNED): Perros, humus y lobos.
Avoid Mass Unemployment, Poverty, and Social Paseando por los territorios humanos desde el
Dislocaton? cinismo a Deleuze

13'00-15'00 - Lunch brake

15'00-16'30 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH -
CHAIR: FRANCESCA FERRANDO
Deleuze, Foucault, Simondon, Latour
Jedrzej Malinski: Media and Posthuman
Dividual— Wojciech Chyla Concept.
Jae-Hee Kim, (Ewha Womans University, Seoul):
Simondon and Latour: A Techno-Politics of
Human-NonHuman Relationship.
Eva Zackova (University of West Bohemia):
Homo Posthumus Face to Face with Eternity.
16'30-17'00 (Skype session)
Mohammad-Ali Rahebi; Fateme Aminaee:
Decimated Individuations and the
Externalization of Habits: Singular Humans,
Cybernetics, and Amnesia.
15'00-17'00 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH
- CHAIR: OSCAR QUEJIDO
Enfoque crítico
José Ignacio Galparsoro (Universidad del País
Vasco): La cuestión de las antropotécnicas en el
contexto del debate en torno a la modificación
de las fronteras de lo humano
Teresa Álvarez: Las fronteras de lo humano: la
antropología en la obra de Bernhard
Waldenfels
Cristina Bernabeu: Biografías, tecnografías y
zoografías del yo
Mariano Rodríguez González (UCM):
Tecnotranscendencia y posthumanismo crítico.
15'00-17'00 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH
- CHAIR: S. L. SORGNER
Art, technology, posthuman studies
Hyesook Jeon (Ewha Womans University,
Korea):
Bioart Critizicing Biosurveillance and
Biocontrol.
Rosangela Barcaro (C.N.R.-I.M.A.T.I., Genova);
Paolo Virgili (Ministry of Justice, Genova):
Bioart: a Brand New Critique of Contemporary
Science.
Claudia Canovai - Why Posthumanist Art
should Count as Art?
Scott Midson: C(l)ogs in the Machine:
Theological Reflections on Technological
Industries and Working with/as Robots

17'00 Coffee in Building D and Building A

17'30-19'30 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH - 17'30-19'30 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH 17'30-19'30 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH
CHAIR: JAIME DEL VAL - CHAIR: MARIANO RODRIGUEZ - CHAIR: S. L. SORGNER
Philosophy of technology 2 and critique Nietzsche Book Panel: Recent Publications on the
Marios Giakalaras; Christos P. Tsongidis (University of Amparo Carrillo Sáenz. (Colombia): El concepto de posthuman.
the Aegean): Posthuman: Biometrics, Big Data and enfermedad en sentido extramoral en el pensamiento Panelists (in alphabetic order):
Video Games. de Nietzsche. Francesca Ferrando
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Yvonne Förster: Metaphysical Considerations on the Carlos Javier González Serrano (UCM): Más allá de la Sangkyu Shin
Omnipresence of Sensors. luz del humanismo: habitar la oscuridad. Nietzsche y Evi Sampanikou
Mainländer Kevin LaGrandeur
Thomas F. DeFrantz: Controls of Race. Posthuman as
Posrace. Oscar Quejido (UCM): Posthumanismo y crítica.
Reflexiones en torno a un <criticismo> más allá de lo
Lorenzo Coretti (American University of Rome) &, humano
Daniele Pica; (John Cabot University Rome):
Ubiquitous Technologies and the Police: Towards the Sergio Antoranz (UCM): ¿Por qué debe ser superado
End of Discretion. el hombre?
Thursday 26th May /Jueves 26 de Mayo
BOARD ROOM - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY
SALA DE JUNTAS - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA
10'00-12'00 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH -
CHAIR: JAIME DEL VAL
Art and technology
Jan Stasienko, (University of Lower Silesia, Poland):
Makin-of…a Cyborg. The Cinematic Visual Effects as
Posthuman Domain.
Emily Rosamond, (University of Kent): Algorithmic
Witnesses. The Move from Discipline to Behavioural
Modulation: Control.
Evi D. Sampanikou, (University of the Aegean):
Authority, Manipulation and Control in the graphic
novel "Democracy" (Papadatos - Kawa). Posthumanist
Reflections.
Maciej Czerniakowski: “The Walking Dead” series as a
new (post-)human and post-technological zombie
panopticon.
12'30-13'30 - session in SPANISH - Chair:
Mariano Rodriguez
Keynote: Fernando Broncano: Dos formas de
posthumanismo: obsolescencia de lo humano u
obsolescencia de categorías.
ASSEMBLY HALL - BUILDING D - PHILOLOGY FACULTY
SALÓN DE ACTOS - EDIFICIO D - FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA
15'00-17'00 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH -
CHAIR: S. L. SORGNER
Critique
Mónica Cano Abadía, (Universidad de Zaragoza):
Beyond Capitalism’s Anthropocentrism. Towards a Zoe- Mediterranean University Institute (EMUI), Instituto
egalitarian Ethic-Onto-Epistemology.
Sangkyu Shin, (Ewha Womans University, Seoul):
Digital Technology and Ethics for Autonomous Artificial Agata Bak: De Husserl a cyborgs o qué nos puede
Agents.
Margaux Portron: Whistleblowing: Towards a Cyber-
parrhesia?
Peggy Reynolds, (Visiting Research Fellow Goldsmiths,
London): Thinking Outside the Grid.
17'30-19'30 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH -
CHAIR: S. L. SORGNER
Discussing the Posthuman
Gavin Rae: Humanism to Posthumanism: The Meaning
of the Beyond.
Daryl Wennemann: The Concept of the Posthuman:
Chain of Being or Conceptual Saltus?
Luciano Zubillaga: Expanded Telepathy Revisited:
Teleportation, Moving Image and Technologies of
Control.
Bert Olivier: Posthuman Nihilism and Technics.
20'00 - Keynote: Allucquére Rossane Stone: Small Catastrophes: Theorizing the Intersections Between Palpables and Impalpables (skype)
21'15 - Optional Dinner at Casa Mingo - (additional costs)
SEMINAR ROOM 217 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY ROOM S-30 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY
SEMINARIO 217 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA SEMINARIO 30 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA
10'00-12'00 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH 10'00-12'00 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH
- CHAIR: MARIANO RODRIGUEZ - CHAIR: S.L. SORGNER
Inmortalidad, salud y “healthspan” Nietzsche
Ángela Duverger-Bobin. (UCM): La transferencia Stephen Overy, (University of Newcastle): Revisiting
mental: más allá de las tecnologías de control. a Truncated Debate: Competing Post- and Trans-
humanist Readings of Nietzsche and Deleuze.
Patrick Simonnin (Institut International de
Prospective sur les Écosystèmes innovants, Lille): George Papandreopoulos: Nietzsche’s
Transhumanismo y mesianismo. Overhuman as a Challenge to Posthumanism.
Gladys Maria Rangel, Relaciones de poder en la Thomas Steinbuch, (Zhejiang University of Science
construcción y gestión de la vejez and Technology): Nietzsche at the Jena Psychiatric
Clinic for the Care and Cure of the Insane: A Case of
Virginia Ballesteros: Psicofármacos: patologización y Misunderstood Evolutionary Development.
trascendencia de lo humano
Ferén David Barrios Pérez. (UCM): Nietzsche on
Transhumanism: Towards a Critique of the
Technological Era.
12'00 – Coffee in Building A
13'30-15'00 - Lunch brake
SEMINAR ROOM 217 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY ROOM S-30 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY
SEMINARIO 217 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA SEMINARIO 30 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA
15'00-17'00 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH 15'00-15'40 - session in ENGLISH
- CHAIR: OSCAR QUEJIDO WORKSHOP
En torno a filósofos by Evi Sampanikou and Jaime del Val: Posthuman
Santiago Javier Armesilla Conde: (Euro- Transitions. War, the Media as Technologies of
Control and the Aegean Sea Refugees in Greek and
de Investigación de la UCM). ¿Es posible un European Contemporary Artistic Production.
transhumanismo marxista? - 40 min
decir la fenomenología sobre el futuro de la
inteligencia artificial
Guillermo Garrido-Lestache Vidal: (European
Graduate School). Más allá del humanismo
Francisco Javier Alcalá Rodríguez: Plegar el pliegue:
pensando el transhumanismo a partir de las
aportaciones de Deleuze y Foucault
17'00 Coffee in Building D and Building A
17'30-19'30 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH
- CHAIR: JAIME DEL VAL
Artes y Cuerpo
Jonathan Piedra Alegría (Universidad Nacional de
Costa Rica): Tecnologías del cuerpo y
transhumanismo
Giovanna Frongia: La interpretación del dolor y de la
muerte en la era posthumana y sus implicaciones
éticas en la práctica médica: el juicio clínico.
Gala González: Prótesis electromecánicas no
funcionales
Salud López: DhaM
Friday 27th May / Viernes 27 de Mayo
ASSEMBLY HALL - BUILDING D - PHILOLOGY FACULTY SEMINAR ROOM 217 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY ROOM S-30 - BUILDING A - PHILOSOPHY FACULTY
SALÓN DE ACTOS - EDIFICIO D - FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA SEMINARIO 217 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA SEMINARIO 30 - EDIFICIO A - FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA

10'00 -11'30 - ROUND TABLES IN ENGLISH - 10'00-11'30 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH 10'00-11'30 - ROUND TABLES IN SPANISH
CHAIR: SAMPANIKOU - CHAIR: MARIANO RODRIGUEZ - CHAIR: OSCAR QUEJIDO
Metabody-Metahumanism Panel Cuestiones éticas Biopolítica
Francesca Ferrando (NYU): Glamorous Selfies, Reverse Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza: Sobre la obligación de Pablo Domenech (Phd Researcher University of
Panopticon and the Will to Global Surveillance desarrollar algoritmos morales: llevar la ética al Murcia) y María García Pérez (Phd Researcher
silicio. Sobre el Big Data University of Granada).: Deshumanismo en las
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University): Big fracturas ontológicas abiertas por los dispositivos
Gene Data, Bioprivacy and the Internet Panopticon Noé Expósito: Post-humanismo y <superación> del securitarios en las fronteras contemporáneas
humanismo. Una aproximación desde la
Jaime del Val (Reverso/Metabody): Ontoethics: The Fenomenología Ariane Aviñó: People analytics y trabajo biopolítico
Wars of Indeterminacy and Control in the Era of Silicon
Valley Transhumanism and the Google-Facebook Ricardo Morte Ferrer: Privacidad/Protección de Iñigo Galzacorta: Siempre fuimos post-humanos:
World Order. Towards a Big Data Ethics White Paper. Datos en los tiempos del Big Data. De qué hablo tecnologías del control y el descontrol.
cuando hablo de Privacidad/Protección de Datos.
With participation of Metabody partners and
collaborators: Yvonne Foerster, Peggy Reynolds,
Tommy DeFrantz, Kevin LaGrandeur, Evi Sampanikou

11'30 – Coffee in Building D

12'00 Keynote: Claudia Giannetti: Comentarios

sobre la METAFORMANCE dos décadas después.
- in SPANISH

12'30 Claudia Giannetti in dialogue with Jaime

del Val - in SPANISH/ENGLISH

13'00-14'00
Plenary Debate on
Posthuman Studies and Technologies of Control
Animated by the Organizing Committee
- in SPANISH/ENGLISH

14'00 final remarks and closure

14'15-16'00 - Main Conference Lunch - catering

16'00-22'00 - Optional - Touristic walk from the University to Old Town - going through some of the most impressive views and significant places
(panorama view from Faro de Moncloa (3 euros additional cost), Parque del Oeste, Tempo de Debod, Plaza de España, Palacio Real (Royal
Palace), and ending with informal Tapas (additional costs) in the most typical venues of the old town.