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Tom Vandeputte

Tom Vandeputte is Professor of Philosophy and Critical Theory at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. He is currently writing a book on Günther Anders’ apocalyptics.

Essays

Promethean Speculations

The human being, Günther Anders proposes, is a creature distinguished by its lack of a fixed place or definite purpose in the order of creation. Before being “in the world,” the human finds itself added on to it: superfluous, obsolete, excluded.