Günther Anders's Images: Human Obsolescence in the Face of the End of the World
Günther Anders; Atomic theses; technology
This work investigates The obsolescence of humans and the Theses for the Atomic Age, central writings in the work of Günther Anders, as part of the construction of a thought that seeks to analyze a new experience of time, coined in the possibilities of the end and extermination of the human species. Three axes concentrate these analyses: the proliferation of technical images, as a way of distancing humans from understanding their technologies; technological totalitarianism, seeking to show how distancing from this understanding leads to human obsolescence and totalitarian policies, which take advantage of the possible means for their overcoming; and, finally, an analysis of the possibilities of the temporal experience predisposed by Anders in the face of the Anthropocene. From these analyses, we seek to map images that define the experience of the end time and determine which imagination about the end is supported by them.