AI și artele performative Prezentul postumanist – perspectivă antropologică, istorică și psihologică

Abstract

Adopting an interdisciplinary lens that bridges anthropology, history,
psychology and performance studies, this essay traces a longue-durée
genealogy of five civilisational “revolutions” – cognitive, agricultural,
scientific, industrial, and digital – to explain how each has progressively
compressed historical time while redistributing agency between humans and
their technological milieu. For every rupture the essay sketches the cascading
shifts in mentality, social organisation and technological infrastructure,
showing how these, in turn, reconfigured theatrical conventions and the
performer–spectator relationship. The present digital revolution, defined by
ubiquitous connectivity, algorithmic mediation and planetary demography, is
framed as a liminal zone leading toward a post-human horizon in which
artificial intelligence operates not merely as instrument but as autonomous
or symbiotic co-creator. Anticipating a “post-Anthropocene theatre” situated
within a self-reflexive technosphere, the paper outlines scenarios involving
synthetic performers, mixed-reality dramaturgies and distributed authorship,
while foregrounding the ethical stakes of amplified power asymmetries,
cognitive overload and potential existential risk. The argument ultimately
positions AI-driven performing arts as both laboratory and litmus test for
negotiating embodied presence, authenticity and shared meaning in an age of
distributed agency, urging proactive governance, inclusive digital literacy
and a renewed ethics of co-creation to ensure that the next revolution becomes
a scene of collective flourishing rather than conflict