That Actaeon in the Ovidian mythological tradition represents hubris and, through it, the threshold of the human—challenging the divine and overstepping his own possibili-ties—is indisputable. Yet in Giordano Bruno’s reflection the hero changes meaning: he be-comes the symbol of a new furor that does not die, but, by discovering Diana, rediscovers himself, re-embraced within Nature. The myth becomes deeply contemporary, because it represents the human being who reaches the culmination of the cognitive process and who, in the Anthropocene, needs to rethink himself, to re-imagine his figure and his body, and to reform his position on Earth and in relation to the Other. It is therefore necessary to reflect pedagogically on the technological enhancement of AI with regard to the need to reconfigure ethicality and the possibility of governing the age of tech-nology, if it is true that the transhuman hybridizes the solicitations of the human—long considered a unique and unified subject—and the instances of the cyborg, as a cybernetic organism (Haraway, 2018). AI, the latest offshoot of human curiosity, has once again discovered the nakedness of Diana. The new Actaeon can only hybridize with the learning machine, and this calls for new symbolic meanings; it asks us to continue practicing imagination and to define its creative force (Cambi, Pinto Minerva, 2023), which has been defined as an evolutionary competence interconnected with evolutionary learning.

The heroic fury of AI: the ethical-aesthetic imperative of pedagogical Transhumanism / Sammarro, Maria; Malara, Silvestro. - In: JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AND TEACHING. - ISSN 2785-5104. - 6:1(2026).

The heroic fury of AI: the ethical-aesthetic imperative of pedagogical Transhumanism.

Sammarro, Maria;
2026-01-01

Abstract

That Actaeon in the Ovidian mythological tradition represents hubris and, through it, the threshold of the human—challenging the divine and overstepping his own possibili-ties—is indisputable. Yet in Giordano Bruno’s reflection the hero changes meaning: he be-comes the symbol of a new furor that does not die, but, by discovering Diana, rediscovers himself, re-embraced within Nature. The myth becomes deeply contemporary, because it represents the human being who reaches the culmination of the cognitive process and who, in the Anthropocene, needs to rethink himself, to re-imagine his figure and his body, and to reform his position on Earth and in relation to the Other. It is therefore necessary to reflect pedagogically on the technological enhancement of AI with regard to the need to reconfigure ethicality and the possibility of governing the age of tech-nology, if it is true that the transhuman hybridizes the solicitations of the human—long considered a unique and unified subject—and the instances of the cyborg, as a cybernetic organism (Haraway, 2018). AI, the latest offshoot of human curiosity, has once again discovered the nakedness of Diana. The new Actaeon can only hybridize with the learning machine, and this calls for new symbolic meanings; it asks us to continue practicing imagination and to define its creative force (Cambi, Pinto Minerva, 2023), which has been defined as an evolutionary competence interconnected with evolutionary learning.
2026
IA, Transhumanism, Hybridization, Cyborg ethics-aesthetics
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