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If human body is always already technological, if we are "an organ-machine plugged into an energy-source-machine" (Deleuze and Guattari), a sufficiently advanced technology might end up not only indistinguishable from magic, but perhaps also integrated into the body as seamlessly as to be completely invisible.

What can we learn about the transhumanist movement if we collapse its "overman" aspirations onto the already accomplished, hormonally and surgically augmented body of the trans wo/man? To what extent is (or is not) the "man of the future" a man at all? And what is the critical potential of the figure of the "last man" in this regard?

Olga Pek is a poet, translator, organizer and a postgrad student at the Charles University in Prague.

She organizes Prague Microfestival and co-edits the international revue VLAK and the Czech quarterly for contemporary poetry Psí Víno.

Her poetry translations from English have been published in the anthology Polibek s rozvodnou ("Kissing the Substation," 2012). She is a member of the TRYIE poetry collective.

Links:
Trans(who?)man
Prague Microfestival
VLAK
Psí Víno

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