On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Damien Broderick <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Given all the angst flying about, I wonder if Dr.<br>
Vaj might provide us with some background?<br>
Google's usual amusing translation provides a bio<br>
note to his BIOPOLITICA (Barbarossa Publishing Company, 2005 Milan):<br>
</blockquote></div><br>What can I say? I am a practising Italian lawyer and a law professor at the University of Padua in New Technologies Law, and in my spare time I have been authoring or translating for years a number of essays and shorter articles, published in volume or in very diverse publications and newspapers, a few of them concern technology, philosophy and biopolitics and promote, in broad terms, prometheism, the posthuman change, and anti-prohibitionism with regard to biotech. <br>
<br>At a point in time this made me get in touch with the WTA, especially since I became curious to explore not just the bio, "wet" transhumanist topics, but also the hard, "cyber" ones; and eventually I contributed with a few friends to the legalisation and rather dramatic growth of its Italian chapter, the <a href="http://www.transumanisti.it">Associazione Italiana Transumanisti</a>, which had already been informally in place for a couple of years (something that was not really appreciated by a few Italian old-timers with very idiosincratic and sectarian agendas; hence their reiterated, bitter defamatory campaigns). <br>
<br>In the process, I worked together with other AIT members to the establishment of a Universal Transhumanist Bibliography (available on the AIT's Web site linked above), to the publication of a rather academic H+ paper in Italian called <i>Divenire</i>, the first issue of which should be in print in a few weeks, and to the Manifesto that was initially mentioned by Giulio Prisco and is currently being translated by Riccardo Campa, its main author.<br>
<br>Through all that, I met Natasha, who was kind enough to encourage me to subscribe to ExI chat list, as I not-so-recently-any-more did.<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br>