The cunning exception of the human

Abstract

In the number 8 of the Mexican magazine Cuadrivio, unfortunately disappeared, was included the article «La astuta excepción de lo humano» that is now reproduced. Back then it responded to a belief inferred from the ancient Mesoamerican long count calendar, which put the date of the winter solstice of that year as the final day of Humanity. In the article we asked ourselves if it made sense to talk about the possibility of the total end of the human. We remembered some moments in which Humanity was suspended: the «Final/Definitive Solution» (Endlösung) that aimed at the extermination of the Jewish people; or the use of nuclear bomb in a global war. Saved this path, we ask ourselves: is the continuity of Humanity assured? The globalization process in which we survive leads us to an unstable equilibrium in which any parameter that exceeds a certain value can cause ruptures and singularities, and strange links between democracies and totalitarian states that are difficult to foresee. Perhaps we are already living fully that moment from which a new subject of history will emerge.