The Department of Philosophy at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah organized a panel discussion entitled (Posthumanism - a study in the genealogy of the concept).
The panel discussion, in which Prof. Dr. Nawal Taha Yassin lectured, included a study of the concept in reality. The title could have been less impactful on the recipient if the conversation was about humanism without linking it to the idea of what is beyond, because often in our thinking system we are closer to familiar concepts which can be tested and verified. Therefore, the beginning was represented by dismantling the concepts that make up the title and then analyzing them.
In addition to addressing the concept of genealogy, as it was defined as the word from the etymological point of view, the search for origin, formation, and standing at the origin. The genealogist listens to the history of cultural products, to reveal the struggle behind it between active forces attached to life and emotional forces that despise life.
In light of this hierarchy of powers, we understand that genealogy, as Deleuze sees it, is the philosophy of the difference between the lowest and the highest.
It is worth noting that its contemporary use went beyond the search for the origin of things, and therefore the word entered many fields of study, there are genealogy, politics, truth, violence, and religion.
As for the post, it is the denial of the limit because its goal is to transcend the limits, and this means that we have a turning point between a world that realizes that things exist only through their borders, and a world that views borders as obstacles and we must drop them, even if they are related to human borders. The phrase synonymous with beyond is what is better and thus they raised their motto "better minds, better bodies, for a better life."
In the wake of biological and technological development, the goal has become to have good offices to enhance human nature. The promises made by the post-humanist discourse in the public sphere, such as the disappearance of diseases, the end of death, and genetic and cognitive improvement, aim to extract recognition from people of what biotechnological intervention requires, genetics, electronics, chemistry, high technology, and nanotechnology to improve the natural course of human existence, a project put forward by the Posthumanism movement, so they turned the idea of selection from natural to artificial. By encouraging the development of technologies with the aim of improving human capabilities, and if we want to define the genealogy of this concept, it turns out that there are two paths, the first is the emergence of the idea, while the second path is the emergence of the concept.
