NEW MAN

“The sight of man now makes us tired—what is nihilism today if it is not that?… We are tired of the human…” – N, The GenealogyThe Genealogy of Morals
Man continually reinvents himself as new — The New Man — a concept that involves the creation of a new ideal human being or citizen replacing other ideals of human beings, classes, types or citizens. The becoming of man as something different or new belongs to the category of human alteration and generally to hominid change. The meaning of a New Man has widely varied and various alternatives have been suggested by a variety of religions and political ideologies, including Christianity, communism, classical liberalism, fascism, and utopian socialism.
The new man is often said to be revolutionary. It reforms through a dialectic, such as the Reformation enflamed by Luther.
The link of the most common modern idea of the New Man (such as the Soviet New Man) with nihilism is of extreme importance.
The “blind acephelous polymorph” that is capital must be embraced, but not from the point of view of some naïve enthusiasm or sentiment of hope that markets can deliver utopia. Instead, as the way out of the binaries of a leftism which is utterly and irretrievably moribund, and a neo-liberal economics which is ideologically bankrupt, we must bend both together in the face of an inhuman and indefatigable capitalism, to think how we might inculcate a new form of radically inhuman subjectivation. This entails the retrieval of the communist project for a new man, AND the liberation of the neo-liberal quest for a capitalism unbound, from both its subterranean dependence upon the state and the skeletal humanist discursive a priori which animates its ideological forms.— Alex Williams, «Xenoeconomics and Capital Unbound», 2008
== Branching ==
* See: Nihilism; transhuman, posthuman; or more generally human alteration.Towards the end of his book on Henri Bergson, Deleuze mined from the philosopher’s work a spectral prefiguration of the people-to-come: the faint traces of an emergent and enigmatic open society, a “society of creators” and ‘privileged’ souls connected together by an imperceptible circuitry. [Berger f12-18]
* The social; New world order
* See: Future people; People of the future; Future man; Reformed man; Altered man; Changed being; Species being; Species change; Species alteration; Hominid change.
* Nihilism and the New Man
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