Religious Posthumanism

A branch that engages with religious traditions—Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism—to explore posthuman possibilities. Religious posthumanism argues that religions have always been posthumanist in some ways: they posit souls that transcend the body, gods that exceed the human, afterlives that continue beyond death. The challenge is to rethink these traditions without the human supremacy that has often accompanied them—to imagine religious posthumanisms that are ecological, inclusive, and humble rather than dominating and exclusive.

Example: "He was raised religious but left when he couldn't accept human supremacy—the idea that humans were special, favored, above all else. Religious posthumanism offered a return: what if his tradition's teachings about souls and gods could be read as decentering the human, not elevating it? He could be religious again, differently—not as a human above, but as a human among."

by Dumu The Void February 19, 2026

Scientific Posthumanism

A branch that grounds posthumanist thought in scientific understanding—evolutionary biology, cognitive science, complexity theory, ecology. Scientific posthumanism argues that science itself has been decentering the human for centuries: Copernicus moved us from the center of the universe, Darwin placed us among the animals, Freud showed we're not masters in our own house. Contemporary science continues the trajectory: we're made of stardust, we're ecosystems, we're nodes in networks. Scientific posthumanism draws on these insights to build a posthumanism that is empirically grounded, not just philosophically speculative.

Example: "She was skeptical of philosophy—too abstract, too speculative. But scientific posthumanism spoke her language: evolution showed we're not special, ecology showed we're connected, neuroscience showed we're not unified. The science was already posthumanist; the philosophy just made it explicit. She didn't need to believe; she needed to see what science was already showing."

by Dumu The Void February 19, 2026