Post-Posthuman Blues

October 24, 2009 7:16 PM

Posthumanist, Fortean thinker and writer Mac Tonnies, dead at 34.

A popular author, blogger and futurist, he was one of the more intelligent folks involved with deeper thinking about many aspects of the paranormal. Mac is widely respected and liked in UFO, futurist, science fiction, and associated esoterica circles, and is considered as one of the most open, inquisitive, intelligent minds exploring these areas. His very last book about his thoughts on the "crypto-terrestrial hypothesis" will likely be published by Anomalist Books.

Self-link alert: these interviews (1, 2, 3), are from my own podcast.

posted by dbiedny (4 comments total)

Apparently, in the future they have circa-90's utterly horrid website design. I guess history really does go in cycles.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:35 PM on October 24, 2009 [1 favorite]

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I will really miss such thought-provoking stuff as "My working hypothesis -- that alien visitation was best viewed in cybernetic terms -- remains an essentially valid paradigm for interpreting the arrival of an alien intelligence on this planet."

It's a shame that a person has died but this "posthumanist" stuff is delusional claptrap and nothing more than an updated form of religion wherein we don't even believe in hover-gods any more because it makes us the hover-gods. The last thing the world needs is a movement that elevates humankind's opinion of itself to even loftier heights than it is already at. What a terribly misdirected waste of what superficially appears to be a quite literate, intelligent and inquisitive mind.
posted by turgid dahlia at 7:35 PM on October 24, 2009 [6 favorites]

>: It's a shame that a person has died but this "posthumanist" stuff is delusional claptrap and nothing more than an updated form of religion wherein we don't even believe in hover-gods any more because it makes us the hover-gods. The last thing the world needs is a movement that elevates humankind's opinion of itself to even loftier heights than it is already at. What a terribly misdirected waste of what superficially appears to be a quite literate, intelligent and inquisitive mind.

Yes, yes, yes.

I really despise posthumanists.
posted by dunkadunc at 7:55 PM on October 24, 2009 [1 favorite]

Also: What part of "linking to your own site or a project you worked on in this space will result in a deletion and your account will be banned." don't you get? Be glad it's the present, because in the future, mathowie, cortex, and jessamyn will have cybernetic banhammer implants that can smite you over regular TCP/IP.
posted by dunkadunc at 7:58 PM on October 24, 2009 [2 favorites]