Humans and Post-humans on the Web: educational scenarios in Digital Coexistence


Abstract:

The dynamics intertwining the human and post-human dimensions, which this study aims to explore as an educational problem as well as a semantic and philosophical one, provide an opportunity to outline a scenario where these two conditions of reality interweave and resolve along the interactive highways of the Web, understood as the new natural setting for humanity's communicative and relational events, in a hermeneutic of post-humanity that aspires to the dimension of a pedagogical gesture. The article discusses the issue of the human in its full historical and dialectical meaning within the dynamics of digital interaction, where space already has the curved, non-Euclidean structure of delocalization (on the web one is situated but it fundamentally lacks a defined geographical location). It questions what the plausible educational scenarios are in this deconstruction of the digital person, starting from the school of thought of Luciano Floridi and his concept of the Infosphere, which, as a new semantic space attributable to interconnected globality, challenges contemporary philosophy of education.