2009/4/3 Florent Berthet <<a href="mailto:florent.berthet@gmail.com" target="_blank">florent.berthet@gmail.com</a>>:<br>> Well, the main reason I can think of why there are so few french Exl-ers is<br>> because french people suck at english. <br>
<br>This may well be a reason. Another one that has probably played a role is that France has a somewhat "independent" transhumanist or posthumanist tradition which was not a direct offspring of the US movement and is only vaguely connected to the same, mostly by third-party commentators.<br>
<br>See, e.g, <a href="http://www.lesmutants.com" target="_blank">http://www.lesmutants.com</a>, 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>, full-text Web version), 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>), Rémi Sussan (<i><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></i>), and Guillaume Faye (above all <a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/images/file/heidegger_faye.html"><i>Pour en finir avec le nihilisme. Heidegger et la question de la technique</i></a>, full-text Web version).<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br><br>