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Cover Feature: Multifunctional Sweat Sensors Using Semiconductor Fibers Based on Two‐Dimensional Nanomaterials (Small Struct. 3/2026)

open access: yesSmall Structures, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026.
Multifunctional Sweat Sensors Semiconducting MoS2/PLA composite fibers enable textile‐integrated, multifunctional sweat sensing. The wearable platform leverages capillary‐driven collection, thermal insulation, and electrostatic charge‐trapping mechanisms to selectively detect key biomarkers while monitoring motion.
Jun Hyun Park   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Birth of the Idea of Perfectibility: From the Enlightenment to Transhumanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Starting from the Age of Enlightenment, a person’s ability of self-improvement, or perfectibility, is usually seen as a fundamental human feature. However, this term, introduced into the philosophical vocabulary by J.-J.
Ugleva, Anastasia, Vinogradova, Olga
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Decolonizing Information Narratives: Entangled Apocalyptics, Algorithmic Racism and the Myths of History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In what follows, some contemporary narratives about ‘the information society’ are interrogated from critical race theoretical and decolonial perspectives with a view to constructing a ‘counter-narrative’ purporting to demonstrate the embeddedness of ...
Ali, Syed Mustafa
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Multisituationality and Social Sensibility. Insights From Neophenomenological Sociology

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Sometimes, we do not act in accordance with what we know. For example, we may purchase products that we know are the result of production chains with questionable ethics. This contribution investigates the paradox between social action and rational knowledge, starting from the ambivalence between emotion and reason.
Michele Granzotto
wiley   +1 more source

TRANSHUMANISM AND MORAL EQUALITY [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics, 2007
ABSTRACTConservative thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama have produced a battery of objections to the transhumanist project of fundamentally enhancing human capacities. This article examines one of these objections, namely that by allowing some to greatly extend their capacities, we will undermine the fundamental moral equality of human beings.
openaire   +3 more sources

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

The Pilgrim’s Progress or Regress? The Case of Transhumanism and Deification

open access: yesReligions
Transhumanism presents a view of human progress by transcending the human, regarding finitude and suffering to be fundamental problems that must be overcome by radical bioenhancement technologies.
Kimbell Kornu
doaj   +1 more source

Why Altered Carbon is not about the future – and nor is any other science fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Science fiction has a more important job to do – it allows us to see ourselves in a new ...
Miller, Gavin
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