Ondřej Váša (ed.): Worlds without People

Special Issue of The Philosophical Journal 1/2023

This special issue enters into worlds without people, and embarks on images that are above all testimonies to the failure of sight, thought, or ethics. At least human one. We have chosen artistic, game, film, and media images that present to us the manifestations of the inhuman: whether creatures, or a world that excludes human beings as something unbecoming. ln the now quite rich and complex terrain of transhumanism, or various versions of post-humanism, however, we have also focused on these moments that are constitutive of humans today: that is, the moments that critically expose us to our own inhumanity, and place before us the demand for a new ontology.