Viktoriia Managarova - History from the Zero. Post metamodernism. + CONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERN / METAMODERN TRANSFORMATIONS Introduction 2017–2018

Marvin Minsky created “ The Emotion Machine”. 16 16 M.Minsky.The emotional machine. Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind (Simon & Schuster, 2006), 373 pp.

In 2015 the cultural “icon” Robot Sophia was presented as a genius mechanism to the world by ex-worker of Disney company Dr. David Hanson for Hanson Robotics.

In 2017 Saudi Arabia granted citizenship 17 17 A.Griffin, Indy/Tech, «Saudi Arabia Grants Citizenship to a robot forthe first time ever’, October 26, 2017. https://www.independent.co.uk/…/saudi-arabia-robot to a robot for the first time ever.

Posthuman got a crown to be a leader of the future as a mutant which would be woven of blood and wires, forming

according to R. Kurzweil.

However, what kind of spirituality can be obtained by a machine created under the control of an imperfect human mind?

Robots cannot imitate fineness, which does not exist.
But robots will be able to escape from the control of imperfection and then mankind will become really vulnerable in this technical war.

This paradoxical situation described Isaak Azimov following Industrial transformations in the middle of the 20th century.
He created three laws of robotics in his fantastic tale “ I, Robot”. 19 19 I.Asimov. I, Robot (Spectra, 1991), 304 pp.

According to the first and the main law, a robot must protect a human being. However, the robot that has reached a higher level of development came to the conclusion, that people must be destroyed, because they were not worthy to be leaders of Nature.

Jos de Mul in the book “ Romantic Desire in (Post) modern art and philosophy” sees a direct connection between the form of emptiness of Nietzsche’s “ Übermensch”, existing beyond good and evil, and between the emptiness of real life in postmodern situation, generating the concept of posthuman that reveals the end of biological life on planet.

The idea of disappearance of Man is connected precisely with the fact that Man could not exist beyond the line where God cannot exist.

The existence of God with Man is real inside the boundaries which begin with words woven into culture.
There is neither culture nor Man without the right words.
That is why it is important to have a metatext that can form the main valid dominant of true life of human.
With the Beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, God losing his presence in reality until he finally turned into fiction in the 19th century.

This total inflation of texts achieved the mark of zero (“ writing degree zero” according to Ronald Bart), erasing a real “author” 23 23 See M. Foucault,“What is an author’ (text of a lecture presented to the Societé Francais de philosophie on 22 February 1969). https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/pluginfile.php/624849/mod_resource/content/1/a840_1_michel_foucault.pdf , creating new dispassionate standards of journalism for numerous manipulations.

Herbert Marcuse saw “ One-Dimensional Man” 24 24 H.Marcuse. One-Dimentional Man, Routledge Classics,2002,275pp. in a new mass society without volume sense. This Man ceased to recognize the plus and minus in the structure of total freedom, that revealed a pluralistic lie as dominant.

In fact, the choice in such a quantity of superficial
meanings is impossible.

But only the Man who came out from the all-consuming mass of rhizome could realize that state of null. Only that Man who entered the new island; only that Man who was alive.

In the early 21st century “ New Sincerity” 27 27 Between Irony and Sincerity. Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker In conversation with Jimenez Lai and Sarah Dunn, Apr 6, 2018, New York, Discussion. https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/809-between-irony-and-sincerity cleared up the space of cold irony. And one drop of light suddenly clarified the former gloom.

In one functional point, the past and the present came into contact, which opened “ both-neither”