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Transhuman
About: Transhuman is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 217 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6185 citations. The topic is also known as: trans-human.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the politics of affect as not just incidental but central to the life of cities, given that cities are thought of as inhuman or transhuman entities and that politics is understood as a process of community without unity.
Abstract: This paper attempts to take the politics of affect as not just incidental but central to the life of cities, given that cities are thought of as inhuman or transhuman entities and that politics is understood as a process of community without unity. It is in three main parts. The first part sets out the main approaches to affect that conform with this approach. The second part considers the ways in which the systematic engineering of affect has become central to the political life of Euro‐American cities, and why. The third part then sets out the different kinds of progressive politics that might become possible once affect is taken into account. There are some brief conclusions.
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TL;DR: Bondi et al. as discussed by the authors place emotion in the context of our always intersubjective relations and offer more promise for politically relevant, emphatically human, geographies, which is a distinctive, intentional bent towards the 'transhuman' a state of being after or beyond human, which seeks to surpass a simple roman ticism of somehow maximising individual emotions.
Abstract: Recently, geographical work on affect has made a small but noticeable emergence (e.g. McCormack 2003; Thrift 2004). In the context of diverse and emergent geographies of emotion (e.g. Anderson and Smith 2001; Wood 2002; Bennett 2004; Davidson and Bondi 2004; Thien 2005; Bondi forthcoming), this work on affect has a distinctive, intentional bent towards the 'transhuman' a state of being after or beyond human. This political move to get after or beyond humanity seeks to surpass a 'simple roman ticism of somehow maximising individual emotions' (Thrift 2004, 68). This model of affect discourages an engagement with everyday emotional subjectivities, falling into a familiar pattern of distancing emotion from 'reasonable' scholarship and simultaneously implying that the emotion of the individual, that is, the realm of 'personal' feelings, is distinct from wider (public) agendas and desirably so. In contrast, placing emotion in the context of our always intersubjective relations offers more promise for politically relevant, emphatically human, geographies. Affect has arguably been on the philosophical register for many centuries; however, as the acade mies of the twenty-first century take shape, an increasing attention to emotion is rippling through the forefront of critical thought, bringing questions of affect to the forefront. Social, cultural and feminist geographers (Bondi 1999 forthcoming; Wood 2002; Airey 2003; Bondi and Fewell 2003; Callard 2003; Thrift 2004), cultural and gender theorists (Chodorow 1999; Ahmed 2002 2004; Harding and Pribram 2002; Sedgwick 2003), philosophers (Nussbaum 2001), sociologists (Jamieson 1998; Hochschild 200
626 citations
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31 Oct 2004
TL;DR: Citizen Cyborg as mentioned in this paper argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically and argues instead for a third way, "democratic transhumanism," by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone?
Abstract: A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, "democratic transhumanism," by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human - "posthuman" or "transhuman" - the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions.
371 citations
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1 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the question concerning the machine: from autopoiesis to machinic heterogenesis was discussed. And the question of the machine's role in the evolution of human beings was also discussed.
Abstract: 1. Theses on technology 2. Mapping inhuman futures: On the construal and affirmation of universal history 3. Perish the thought! The death of eternal return 4. August 1981: Overhuman futures: Nietzsche and the Darwin machine 5. Entropy and the evolution: the difference engine 6. The question concerning the machine: from autopoiesis to machinic heterogenesis 7. Megamachine! On the undecidability of machinic enslavement.
191 citations
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1 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Cole-Turner and Waters as mentioned in this paper discuss the Transhumanist Challenge and the implications of transhumanism in the context of the Christian perspective on transcendence and human enhancement.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Transhumanist ChallengeRonald Cole-Turner 2. Contextualizing a Christian Perspective on Transcendence and Human Enhancement: Francis Bacon, N. F. Fedorov, and Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMichael S. Burdett 3. Transformation and the End of Enhancement: Insights from Pierre Teilhard de ChardinDavid Grumett 4. Dignity and Enhancement in the Holy CityKaren Lebacqz 5. Progress and Provolution: Will Transhumanism Leave Sin Behind?Ted Peters 6. The Hopeful CyborgStephen Garner 7. Artificial Wombs and Cyborg Births: Postgenderism and TheologyJ. Jeanine Thweatt-Bates 8. Taking Leave of the Animal? The Theological and Ethical Implications of Transhuman ProjectsCelia Deane-Drummond 9. Chasing Methuselah: Transhumanism and Christian Theosis in Critical PerspectiveTodd T. W. Daly 10. Human or Vulcan? Theological Consideration of Emotional Control EnhancementMichael L. Spezio 11. Whose Salvation? Which Eschatology? Transhumanism and Christianity as Contending Salvific ReligionsBrent Waters 12. Transcendence, Technological Enhancement, and Christian TheologyGerald McKenny 13. Transhumanism and ChristianityRonald Cole-Turner Contributors Index
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| 2019 | 22 |
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| 2016 | 11 |