PENUMBRA - On Women, Power and Traditions #2
, by Biasa Group, 1 min reading time
POST-HUMANISM AS A SPECULATION
Historical trajectory of civilization is often marked by ancient monuments or inscriptions. It also serves as a marker of how humankind records their achievements, victories, or what is referred to as progress. In the context of the Anthropocene, humankind is centrally positioned so that they become predominant or at a much superior level. Scientists have spent hundreds of years studying the origin of humankind, which is considered the dawn of civilization, and designated the history of humankind as the vortex of the history of life.
Literature on the origin of humankind then became canonical texts spreading worldwide, with interpretations dominated by experts of Western knowledge system and mainly shaped in the patriarchal culture. The story of human evolution is always illustrated with the representation of the body of a man or a male human being. For hundreds of years, the illustration was barely questioned in the field of science. The same thing applies to the speculated idea of the future, how the life of mankind is imagined in the following decades, and how the role of women enters the picture of humanity in the future. How would science give equal space to various genders and break the dominance of male representation that has been considered given in the history textbooks.
