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Transhuman Perfection: The Eradication of Disability Through Transhuman Technologies
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2014 This paper examines transhuman technologies that seek to eradicate disability - primarily prostheses and implants. While most would agree that disability denies individuals the same quality of life as those deemed “abled,” this eradication ultimately ...
David-Jack Fletcher
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Editorial: Transhumanist Politics, Education, and Design
Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2016 This special issue of Confero takes its start in an essay by John Mazarakis who presents an overarching perspective on the underpinning politics of transhumanism. Considering theoretical debates and differences in the transhumanist movement over the last
Jörgen Skågeby +2 more
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«The Future of Humans in a Post-Human World»: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Between, 2022 Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson's 2019 novel, is a mirror transposition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The novel adumbrates a posthuman or transhuman life to be lived “forever as brain emulation” (Winterson 2020, 104).
Fausto Ciompi
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 612-628, July 2026.Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 559-571, July 2026.Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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Left Accelerationism, Transhumanism and the Dialectic: Three Manifestos
New Proposals, 2022 Left accelerationism and the transhuman subject who embodies this movement’s political potential have multivalent relations to Marxism. Whilst recent interventions such as Srnicek and Williams’ #Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics and ...
Paddy Gordon
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Transhumanism and New Challenges in Political Theories [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللیExtended AbstractIntroduction: Transhumanism, which emerged in the 1950s with Julian Huxley’s ideas, is an intellectual and philosophical movement that seeks to enhance human physical, mental, and ethical capacities through advanced technologies such as ...
Matin Anjomrooz, Mohammad Khezri
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CYBORG ARTS IN THE PROJECTS OF TRANSHUMANIST BIOHACKERS
Russian Studies in Culture and Society, 2023 Since the beginning of the 21st century, a new artistic direction has been formed in biohacking – “the cyborg art” (cyborgism), whose leaders (cyborg artist Moon Ribas and “transhuman” or “the first cyborg” Neil Harbisson), promote a transhumanist ...
Yulia V. Khvastunova
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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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