[extropy-chat] THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK

[Damien Broderick]

This new book-length study by academic Thomas Foster was released a few 
months ago by the University of Minnesota press, with the subtitle: 
Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory. As promised on the jacket, it launches 
from a (rather outdated) discussion of Max More and Extropy Institute, 
discusses what it calls Hans Moravec's "fantasy" of "downloading" -- Foster 
means uploading, and apparently never bothers to explain why it's a fantasy 
-- and wanders about between cyberpunk and Eganesque science-fiction, queer 
theory and other fashionable discourses, and analysts of trans- and 
posthumanism.

I haven't yet read the book. Max might wish to.

Damien Broderick