Beyond Human Agriculture To Post-Human Agriculture
Two Volume Set

Book Abstract
Is human agriculture really so valuable that, as Nikolai Gogal once put it, “the experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral…Agriculture should be at the basis of everything?” (TE 2017) This positive view on human agriculture can be contrasted with the opposing one by Bertrand Russell, who instead observed that, “with the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.” (TE 2017a)
Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), human agriculture (in relation to naturalness and non-naturalness—as well as other dichotomies) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe, such that there is no naturalness without non-naturalness (and vice versa), to be explained by the “evolution-transformation principle” (and other ones) in “existential dialectics” (in Chapter Four).
Surely, this challenge to the conventional debate does not mean that human agriculture is worthless, or that those diverse fields (related to human agriculture)—such as botany, ethology, microbiology, agronomy, aerology, agroecology, ethics, religion, biochemistry, space food, genetical engineering, biology, demographics, economics, psychology, political science, sociology, environmental studies, philosophy, technological studies, cultural studies, and so on—should be rejected. (WK 2017) Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.
Rather, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of human agriculture (and related fields) in regard to the dialectic relationship between naturalness and non-naturalness (and those in other dichotomies)—while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the theory of post-human agriculture) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters.
This seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about human agriculture (in relation to the dialectic relationship between naturalness and non-naturalness—as well as those in other dichotomies) from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its “post-human” fate.