Ancient Greek philosophers walked through their ideas. That stopped when writing was invented. Today, ideas are instantly transferred into bits and retrieved only when convenient by observers who sit immobile before a screen. The body, neglected and despised as "meat," has become an obstacle in a post-human flight toward "pure, informational embodiment." The only treatment for this condition is to perform a relinking of body and mind. But this requires education and revolution. running (posthu)man_ starts with a classroom and RPM's (revolutions per minute).

KEY MEMES:

• Technology as "challenging-forth" (Heidegger). Technology is not about things, but about how we exist as human beings. Technology is a force that challenges us to be more efficient, to the point of making the world unsuitable to the slowness, messiness, and fleshiness of human beings. We can say "no" to the existential challenge of technology without abandoning technological devices. But this means saying "yes" to the body, and even "yes" to mortality.
• "Dromospheric pollution" (Virilio). Alongside air pollution, we might consider "speed pollution," an excess of speed, based on our desire to overcome space and time. An excess of speed, like an excess of other pollutants, makes the world unlivable, unsuitable for humans. We need an ecology of speed, to critically guauge the ethical and humane components of forward-thinking innovations.

Eadweard Muybridge's filmic experiments with the human body (1887) mark a ghostly step in the race toward disembodiment: real time is henceforth supplemented by repeatable time; real bodies are henceforth rendered redundant by their recordability. The nature of "reality" itself is thrown into question by a new virtuality.