<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:07 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Question please: in transhumanist functions in general, I perceive a curious<br>
> lack of participation by the French. <br>
<br>Good question. What I can tell you is that the French landscape has always been all but devoid of intellectuals close to transhumanist and posthumanist ideas, or interested thereto. To name a few, see Yves Christen (<a href="http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2710704706/qid=1137013392/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl15/403-1370053-3763628" target="_blank"><i>Les années Faust, ou La science face au
vieillissement</i></a>, Sand, Paris
1991), Rémi Sussan (<a href="http://www.amazon.fr/utopies-posthumaines-Contre-culture-cyberculture-culture/dp/2916097015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218713871&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span>Les utopies posthumaines : Contre-culture, cyberculture, culture du chaos</span></a>), Guillaume Faye (<a href="http://foster.20megsfree.com/481.htm" target="_blank">Archeofuturisme</a>, L'Aencre, Paris 1991), Charles Campetier (<a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.grece-fr.net/textes/_txtWeb.php?idArt=295" target="_blank">
Avec les robots, par délà le bien et le mal</a>). One could also remember Lyotard and his intellectual progeny or rich, original Web initiatives such as <a href="http://www.lesmutants.com">http://www.lesmutants.com</a>. <br>
<br>On the other hand, part for their language, part for their politics, French transhumanism and precursors or supporters thereof are probably among the least connected with the American movement and exponents, to the point that the WTA spokeperson for the francophone world used to be, if I am not mistaken,... a Canadian of African origins.<br>
<br>At the Associazione Italiana Transumanisti we are glad however to count in our ranks Alberto Masala, who, while being Italian, is active in the recently established Web site at <a href="http://www.transhumanistes.com">http://www.transhumanistes.com</a>, au centre d'une possible Association Française Technoprogressiste.<br>
<br>If our general discussions on the possibility of establishing some kind of umbrella organisation or federation at an European level coalesce, this might contribute to a higher degree of penetration and visibility of French transhumanism.<br>
<br>Stefano Vaj<br><br> </div>