Tomorrow in the Outer Space Remember the Dreaming

- Technology, Spirituality and the Human Today -

Abstract

With a pastiche title reminiscent of novelist Javier Marias’s tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, this article sets out to compare two extremes of “identity, difference and memory”: Western trans-humanism and Australian Aboriginal Dreaming. The main assumption is that the two have drawn on surprisingly similar concepts (immortality/eternity, universality/ubiquity), and yet their approach to the individual and to self-management sets them wide apart. While avoiding to idealize either of them, the article does plead for a “return of knowledge” from the formerly colonial space to the formerly colonizing world.