Where Are We At? Reconsidering (Un)Reality

While both the progressivist and the nostalgic responses to technological change have been shown to represent coping strategies that, in their own ways, merely reaffirm ‘business as usual’ (anthropocentrism as the default model), this chapter seeks alternative strategies to deal with the matter. Instead of opting for either of the extremes, a posthumanism-inspired solution focusing on interactivity and co-constitution of humans and their environment (including technology) is proposed. Such a horizontal model is claimed to avoid binary and hierarchical thinking characteristic of the mainstream anthropocentric thought. In this way, the aforementioned perspective is postulated as not only offering a viable explanatory apparatus but also being ethically preferable to the more established modes of thought.