Screen LibraryTranshumanism : evolutionary futurism and the human technologies of utopia /
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought. IAndrew Pilsch counters critiques, arguing inste...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Minneapolis, MN : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought. IAndrew Pilsch counters critiques, arguing instead that transhumanism's utopian rhetoric actively imagines radical new futures for the species and its habitat. Pilsch situates contemporary transhumanism within the longer history of a rhetorical mode he calls "evolutionary futurism" that unifies diverse texts, philosophies, and theories of scien |
| Carrier Form: | 244 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781517901011 1517901014 9781517901028 1517901022 |
| Index Number: | B821 |
| CLC: | B089.3 |
| Call Number: | B089.3/P643 |
| Contents: | An inner transhumanism: modernism and cognitive evolution -- Astounding transhumanism!: evolutionary supermen and the golden age of science fiction -- Toward omega: hedonism, suffering, and the evolutionary vanguard -- Transhuman aesthetics: the new, the lived, and the cute -- Acceleration and evolutionary futurist utopian practice. |