[ExI] Is Transhumanism Coercive?

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 20:55:51 UTC 2011


2011/10/21 <natasha at natasha.cc>
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> > Transhumanism-relevant technologies or trends are of course an altogether different subject, which can hardly be reduced to a single research field.
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> Not necessarily.  Transhumanist technologies are endemic to transhumanism, without which there would be no transhumanism.  (I mean, how the heck are we supposed to expand life onto non-biological systems without technology?)  I suppose one could say that postmodernism's technology is the written word, while transhumanism's technology is evolution.)

Right. Let me rephrase: "Transhumanism-relevant technologies or trends
are of course an altogether different story, because they can hardly
be reduced to a single research field, so that a single research
project is not likely to exhaust them all".

> There have been a lot of efforts for scholars to create a field out of posthumanism, but it is so intertwined with postmodernism that it never really happened.  This is where transhumanism comes to the rescue!  Transhumanism has an opportunity to get scholars out of the postmodernist train wreck and into some critical thinking, problem solving, practicability and visionary ideation.

Indeed.

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Stefano Vaj




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