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Watched this today: "Ritual" (2000) by Hideaki Anno
Liminal Space. Monotonous Interiors. Dyed in Red and White. Eccentric costumes. Melancholic, dubious soundtrack. Splashes of collage across screen. Characters feeling lost in an obsolete world. Inner heart-wrenching monologue.
All of this made me scream "This is truly a work by Hideaki Anno". Perhaps because his movie counterpart is greatly overshadowed by his masterpiece "Evangelion", I naturally feel more drawn to his films, both youthful "Love & Pop" and yearning "Ritual".
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What Does “Posthuman Design” Actually Mean?
Posthumanism refers to a critique of Humanism, emphasizing a change in our understanding of the self and its relation to the natural world, technology, biotechnology, and, in my research work, design and artifacts.
The Great Chain of Being serves as an excellent illustration of the fact that our understanding of the world and of design has always been shaped by the act of elevating man over the nonhuman realm on a hierarchical scale. Protagoras’s “Man” as the “measure of all things” is at the core of design ethos, and is echoed in Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man or Corbusier’s Modular Man. All of these examples represent a “normative” body as a universal calibration standard.
Following this line of thought, you can see how these notions seep into all fields of design. At times, they are even disguised as “human-centered design,” with an oversimplified goal of solving problems through a “human” perspective.
Design is founded on the understanding of the human as a discrete, individual subject. However, a modern understanding of biology and our relationship with advanced technology, along with a recognition of the historical injustices that have marginalized certain voices, are beginning to call into question the centrality of human beings as it’s traditionally understood in the natural order.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/what-does-posthuman-design-actually-mean/
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