[ExI] Bodies

[Natasha Vita-More]

Stefano wrote:

On 9 March 2010 21:15,  <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
> I do care that students and the public are given information about 
> their future apart from Fukuyama and Joy and McKibben, et al.  I don't 
> really care about academic cliques, but I do darn well care what 
> students are taught and what information is available to them in order 
> for them to question and imagine their own future.

>I am not really knowledgeable about US academic cliques,

I was not speaking about US academic cliques. This is an international
issue.

>and it may well be the case that posthumanist intelligentsia in general is
irritating in its snubbing
>attitude towards organised transhumanism and has after all a relatively
limited social impact, but I 
>would be reluctant to put it altogether in the same bag with blatant
neoluddites such as the ones you mention.

Sure, the posthumanism folks are vying quite strongly for philosophical
position and it is very true that transhumanism is ignored, but this links
directly to the postmodernist feminists aggressive coursework, which is
amazingly organized and smartly by promoting gay and gender studies, etc.
which is enormously beneficial to the students.

>This is one area where I am personally trying to build bridges.
>Without renouncing one single inch of our own positions, but simply trying
to overcome language barriers...

Natasha