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Accountable Metaphors: The Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei
Atlantis, 2021 Tao Lin’s novel Taipei (2013) can be described as a picture of transhuman existence in the current digital world. However, its poetics of failure does not seem to adjust to the typically utopian visions that have often been related to transhumanism ...
Miriam Fernández-Santiago
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Health beyond the carbon barrier
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 Silicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views
Abou Farman
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Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2022 The concepts of posthuman, transhuman, transhumanism and human enhancement, and their use of emerging technologies, are described together with their scientific and social implications.
Miquel-Àngel Serra
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The Outline of Communal ‘Ars Moriendi’ in Egalitarian Transhumanism
Ethics in Progress, 2022 This paper outlines the proposal for an egalitarian, transhumanist, and communal version of ars moriendi that should be coherent and meet the consequentialist criteria of the principle of minimizing anti-values and maximizing values, especially the ...
Łukasz Paweł Polowczyk
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Narratifs des grandes transitions
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2020 The multiplicity and diversity of entities and processes involved in major transitions require narrative choices to make these transitions intelligible, requiring concepts that combine human and non-human agentivities.
Denis Couvet
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The Psycho-Bio-Physical Nature of Man, Possibility and Technology of Their Extended Mind
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2022 The facts and inferences exposed in this writing, and the arguments that support it, allow us to conclude that the «extension of the mind», opened during the evolutionary process, since always and today accelerated by the work of human intervention, in ...
Javier Monserrat
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Les Méta-Barons, des cyborgs subversifs ?
ReS Futurae, 2019 In recent years, there has been an increasing overlap between science fiction and scientific narratives, particularly with the rise of transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to improve human physical and mental capacities.
Adrien Cascarino
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Revista de Filosofia, 2020 This work promotes the thesis that humans are naturally transhuman. In order to achieve this, we present in the first two sections some examples of technological devices assembled to human beings, and we critically review the assumptions and dichotomies ...
Karina Silvia Pedace +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Posthuman Rights: Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds
Revista Teknokultura, 2015 There are at least three dimensions to rights. We may have and lack freedom to 1) be, 2) do, and 3) have. These dimensions reformulate Locke’s categories, and are further complicated by placing them within the context of domains such as natural or civil
Woody Evans
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