{"id":237488,"date":"2026-05-20T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/stelarc-on-transhumanism-we-are-in-a-time-of-circulating-flesh"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:09:21","slug":"stelarc-on-transhumanism-we-are-in-a-time-of-circulating-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/stelarc-on-transhumanism-we-are-in-a-time-of-circulating-flesh","title":{"rendered":"Stelarc on Transhumanism: We Are in a Time of Circulating Flesh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stelarc-on-transhumanism-we-are-in-a-time-of-circulating-flesh.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/203762606-singularity1on1-stelarc.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a time of circulating flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stelarc said that to me 13 years ago. In 2026, it reads less like art criticism and more like a status report.<\/p>\n<p>He had grown an ear on his arm. He had hung himself from hooks 25 times. He had let strangers on the internet choreograph his muscles through electrical stimulation, his body remote-controlled across continents.<\/p>\n<p>Most people called it spectacle. I think it was inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Because long before deepfakes, before voice cloning, before AI agents wearing our faces, was already asking the question we now cannot avoid:<\/p>\n<p>Where does the body end and the network begin?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/stelarc-on-transhumanism-we-are-in-a-time-of-circulating-flesh\">Continue reading \u201cStelarc on Transhumanism: We Are in a Time of Circulating Flesh!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are in a time of circulating flesh.\u201d Stelarc said that to me 13 years ago. In 2026, it reads less like art criticism and more like a status report. He had grown an ear on his arm. He had hung himself from hooks 25 times. He had let strangers on the internet choreograph his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}