The aesthetics of immortality

”To be immortal is a small thing: except for man, all creatures are, since they ignore death; the divine thing, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know oneself immortal.” Jorge Luis Borges

What will be the place of the species Homo? What will be the role of man in society? How will social structures evolve? How will technology, as the new creator, affect the perception of life, time and space? How and what impact will it have on human identity? How will man respond? At this level of concatenations, reactions, evolutionary and technological triggers, how will human freedom manifest itself and how will human creativity compare with science? The modification of human’s genetic defects, errors of the natural body system, will lead to the creation of a New Aesthetics, The Aesthetics of Immortality?In this context, can we still define our species as homo? Will science and technology create this new species tomorrow? Who will be in control of human creation? What will be our next God? Who will save us? Will we still devote time to aesthetics when it will no longer be necessary to leave a trace of ourselves as beings separated from time and immortal?

With the help of Google Translator’s voice simulator, we read the text we had written about the concept of death in the age of immortality simulation. An age in which death, as Y.N. Harari said it’s a technical problem to be solved and it will be solved. From Silicon Valley (USA)  to Russia, across Europe, humans are working on this challenge to create a perfect human being, but no longer human. It is a technological challenge launched by humans towards his own extinction, a very interesting and inescapable paradox.

The voice simulator certainly shows us the almost perfect ability of technology to simulate human beings, but it remains an almost perfect simulation.

Dust is proposed as the third way into the conflict between death and immortality. Dust is a parallel world that lives simultaneously with us and within us. 

“The simulacrum is never something that hides the truth – it is the truth that hides that there is none. The simulacrum is true” *.

*J. Baudrillard, “Simulacri e impostura. Bestie, Beaubourg, apparenze e altri oggetti”, PGRECO, 2008