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Transhumanism in Dave Eggers' The Circle: Utopia vs. Dystopia, Dream vs. Nightmare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Although transhumanism counts with the support of a growing number of followers, some critics and writers of fiction have recently warned about the detrimental effects that some particular technologies may have on human beings.
Laguarta Bueno, Carmen
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Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios

open access: yesFUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism and the Islamic Concept of Human Perfection: A Theological Inquiry [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Transhumanism is an intellectual movement focused on eliminating bodily limitations through technology for enhancement, whether physical, cognitive, or expanding longevity.
Faizal Hamzah Lubis, Faiz Albar Nasution
doaj   +1 more source

MARGINALIZATION AND TRANSCENDENCE IN TRANSHUMANISM AND MINJUNG THEOLOGY

open access: yesZygon, 2023
The visibility of transhumanism in pop culture reveals its dramatic advance in twenty‐first‐century life. The more widespread the movement becomes, the more important it is to consider how transhumanism might be made relevant to global humanity.
doaj   +2 more sources

“It’s the end of the world as we know it and we feel fantastic: examining the end of suffering” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper examines the consequences of the transhumanist goal to eliminate the suffering of all sentient beings. While transhumanists identify numerous approaches to this goal, the endgame is genetic modification of humans and natural predators ...
Renstrom, Joelle
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Science Fiction and Future Human: Cyborg, Transhuman and Posthuman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Since science and technology are intertwined with literature, a great number of writers have created different depictions under the label of Science Fiction which mostly shows various aspects of future human, life, culture, and society.
Ida Baizura Bahar   +3 more
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The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Does the digital/virtual have a reality? For a critical realist, there is no doubt it does, since what can cause something is real. But what kind of reality is it? The article argues that this reality is a relational quidditas. The diffusion of new AI‐based technologies increasingly blends analogue and virtual realities, making it essential to
Pierpaolo Donati
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism (h+) vis-à-vis African Holism

open access: yesAfrican Theological Journal for Church and Society, 2023
Transhumanism (h+) is a social and philosophical movement that looks to enhance human cognitive and physiological conditions by developing technology to improve human health and extend human life, leading up to a digital version of eternal life on a ...
Robert Falconer
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PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION AND TRANSHUMANISM: EXPLICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2019
Purpose. The research is aimed at finding out the grounds, forms and essence of the correlation between the projects of information philosophy and transhumanism from the point of view of the problematics of philosophical anthropology.
O. V. Marchenko, P. V. Kretov
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Transhumanism and epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The author analyzes the main epistemological orientations characterizing the transhumanist movement, by referring to the results of a recent internal survey.
Campa, Riccardo
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