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size=2 face=Arial>Does the author use the terms "transhuman" or
"transhumanism"? Probably not. But please tell me I am
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size=2 face=Arial>On another list, a leading "arts' list, a discussion is going
on right now about the cyborg and my colleagues are dissing transhumanism, as
usual. But I'm holding my own and trying to bring knowledge to that list
rather than get annoyed at the lack of insight in academic arts.
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to transhumanism?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>What book are you referring to on transhumanism and
biopolitics?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Stefano
Vaj<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:06 PM<BR><B>To:</B> World
Transhumanist Association Discussion List; ExI chat list;
technoprogressive@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ExI] The Paradox of the
Posthuman<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I have just finished reading <I><A
href="http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Posthuman-Science-Fiction-Techno-Horror/dp/3639143795/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248645027&sr=8-1">The
Paradox of the Posthuman: Science Fiction/Techno-Horror Films and Visual
Media</A></I> <SPAN class=ptBrand>by Julie Clarke</SPAN><SPAN class=binding>.
<BR><BR>The author may not be a genius </SPAN>and her "critical studies"
language may be annoying to some of us, but the book is entirely dedicated to
transhumanist trends in our culture, and may play a role in overcoming
also in the English-speaking world a scenario where most transhumanists used to
ignore philosophical posthumanism or to sneer at it as a bunch of Sokalesque
clowns, and the latter takes transhumanism into consideration only marginally
and as a trivial variant of humanist and nineteenth-century
narratives.<BR><BR>In fact, a debate between posthuman-ism and post-humanism
where both take each other more seriously seems inescapable, and it does not
seem coincidential that one of my publishers in presenting a book on
transhumanism and biopolitics chose to describe my own orientation as
"overhumanist, identitarian and postmodernist" even though I abhor "fashionable
nonsense" and oracular, anti-scientific jargon.<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Stefano
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