Genesis 3, 21:

And {Yahweh/God} made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins and clothed them.

 

 

 

Around my research, very quickly comes the idea of the carnal envelopes of Eve and Adam, like impersonal envelopes (or personal since they are tattooed) that we could all put on. Fabric golems, which will be available in several skin colors, embroidered or tattooed in various ways.

The text of reflection on our incarnation by Sylviane Agacinski resonates and reinforces my thought: “The first act of this drama is the creation of man, a spiritual being “in the image and likeness of God”. Its outcome is the Christian hope in eternal life, detached from those “tunics of skin” in which Adam and Eve had been condemned to live, after being driven out of the Garden of Eden.[...] The Technoscientific power today reigns over all of nature, including that of man himself. A new man is emerging, no longer in a dream or in the beyond, but here below. The new believers intend to exchange their old tunics of skin for a body of which they will be the sovereign makers : body restored and increased body, body made without father or mother, and no longer engendered; reconstructed and neutral body, beyond the man and the woman; body less and less vulnerable but less and less alive. »1

 

transhumanophore: are we a degraded form of Eve and Adam?

In which case a return to the sources would be progress towards an augmented humanity.

 

Dressing up as Adam and Eve would be a return to perfect humanity, a way of spiritual transhumanism. The flesh serves as an excuse for our imperfection, to dispense with accepting our faults.

 

The totipotence of the soul: if one thinks only of improving the body, this presupposes that the mind, that the soul, is already perfect, optimal. Is this assumption justified?

 

Transhumanism, on the spiritual level, is a very old concern, for at least two thousand years. Buddhism believes in metempsychosis according to the good and the bad that we have done in our lives. Shintoists have living mummies: priests who mummified themselves during their lifetime.

 

Do we have to make noodle sculptures to talk about our human condition (Patman by Michel Blazy or Théo Mercier, 2010) do we need works that require permanent maintenance, when the works are not sustainable like the rest of the planet and that they are degrading? You will buy the concept of a banana taped to a wall that you will change every two weeks... The works that we hang on a wall and forget about are over, to look at them, they must remembered to you by the smell of rotting… not only do these sculptures have noodle skins, but their organicity is similar to their appearance. They have for them to be like the figure of the Golem, an immense form of mud. The creature born of man, capable of moving and perhaps surpassing him... Isn't our skin a dry mucous membrane?

 

And speaking of skin, apples have pores too. It looks like small round and firm bodies that wrinkle and rot as they age, they carry seeds within them, more or less fertile. In short, apples are bodies like any other.
 

1 Sylviane Agacinsky,The disembodied man, from the carnal body to the fabricated body, Tracts Galimmard n°7, 2019.