The ideological use of these contradictions is widespread and was evident throughout the symposium by all speakers with the notable exception of Avital Ronell. But the jury of philosophers found this strategy extremly unconvincing and was, quite frankly, appalled by the openly political rhetoric ruling such difficult epistemological issues. All these new radicals Andrew Ross mentioned are attracted by the overwhelming need for responsibility the rotten state of the earth displays. Each of them are a genuine homo generator just born violently in blood and shit with no knowledge whatsoever about its own destiny. What I call homo generator realizes the hope and the angst of the philosophers after Hegel, a Dasein beyond metaphysics, a human being which needs no Being, no certainty, no truth.
Modern technology is the birthplace of homo generator, but an ambiguous one.
A philosopher of technology worth his or her profession has to love and hate technology at the same time, acknowledging our debt to Kierkegaard who made such contradictory moves a powerful indirect communication. Homo generator is not a success story und will not vouch for progress, but by the same token homo generator begins to fulfill the artifical existence of humanity. Yet homo generator in my understanding revokes a misconception of humanity. Homo sapiens, homo faber, homo creator - none touches our core any longer. We shall of course keep on thinking, continue to make tools, and imagine ourselves to be the originator of things, of our acts and thoughts.