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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Transhumanism"”.
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Transhumanism in Film
… deep-seated questions, this thesis evaluates transhumanism through the medium of film. Films can act as case-studies by which to discuss the ethical issues at hand. In addition, film connects generations, individuals, and societies - allowing for an exchange of perspectives. I present a number …
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Integral Transhumanism: The Holistic Leap Forward
Transhumanism champions the emerging use of biotechnological enhancement to perfect our biologically-based human limitations. This study evaluates both the contemporary bioethical discourse on enhancement, and the transhumanist movement itself, in light of Ken Wilber's Integral Theory of …
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Transhumanism as a Thin-centred Ideology
… ongoing scientific and technological revolution, transhumanism has grown into a worldwide movement and its ideas penetrated the public discourse and popular culture. Transhumanism promotes the radical idea that humanity will be able to transcend its biological limits and enhance individual …
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
… Beyond the curative potential of technoscience, transhumanism seeks to transcend the biological limits of the human body, including death. My research identifies a racist, colonial, patriarchal impulse in the transhuman pursuit of immortality. I begin by situating transhumanism biopolitically …
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Training Transhumanism : I want to become a cephalopod
Training Transhumanism is a psycho-physical training regimen for evolving the future of the human, developed in collaboration with the choreographer luciana achugar. The regimen seeks to develop within the human new sensitivities and capacities for a world marked by everincreasing ecological and …
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Transhumanism-Christianity Diplomacy: To Transform Science-Religion Relations
Transhumanism is an emerging philosophical and social movement that aims, through technology, to extend human life and radically expand intellectual, physical, and psychological capabilities. Many of transhumanism's goals overlap the eschatological hopes of Christians, such as the elimination of …
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The idea of transhumanism from the perspective of historical ontology /
… is devoted to the analysis of the idea of transhumanism. The research is based on the theoretical and methodological approach of historical ontology developed by the philosopher and historian of science Ian Hacking. The main aim of the research is to reconstruct the principles of …
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Transhumanism and the imago Dei: narratives of apprehension and hope
The development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality generate narratives of apprehension within contemporary Western technoculture. Transhumanist narratives declare that humanity is now upon the brink of seizing technological control of its own evolution, and …
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OVERCOMING LIMITATIONS: THE RHETORICAL IMPACT OF SCIENCE FICTION ON THE TRANSHUMANISM DEBATE
… and mental capabilities. Proponents of transhumanism face considerable opposition from those who believe humanity must avoid the temptation of radical biotechnology. From the rhetoric disseminated by both groups a problematic debate emerges, one marked by strident dogmatism and …
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Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism
This dissertation examines how the human bodymind has been seen as malleable by science, technology, and policy practitioners from the Eugenic era in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, to the future imaginaries of Transhumanists and technology innovators. I critique the main …
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Transhumanizmo idėja istorinės ontologijos perspektyvoje /
… is devoted to the analysis of the idea of transhumanism. The research is based on the theoretical and methodological approach of historical ontology developed by the philosopher and historian of science Ian Hacking. The main aim of the research is to reconstruct the principles of …
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An evaluation of biotechnological enhancement in the light of an African perspective of personhood : the metaphysical aspects of botho and human nature
Transhumanism is the view that human evolution should be actively enhanced by the human race through science and technology. Bio-technological enhancements are interventions designed to transform individual human capabilities to levels which surpass the current ones. However, the main objection is …
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The imago Dei, Transhumanism, and the Future Glory of Humanity: A Critical Interaction With Ray Kurzweil's Technological Singularity
In this dissertation, I argue that Ray Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision toward a merger between human biology and technology, generated out of a technological “Singularity,” will have revolutionary implications for humanity. I employ Trentham’s Inverse Consistency Protocol as a methodological …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
Transhumanism is a movement dedicated to radically changing the human condition through technology, including by extending lifespan in one of three ways: (1) a biological approach that focuses on reducing the effects of aging, (2) a cybernetic approach that focuses on replacing the body with …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… embodiment, understanding and embracing transhumanism, and moving towards mycelial convergence. I turn to new materialism, particularly theory built by Mel Y. Chen and Eva Hayward, in order to theorize a trans ecology that is agential and capacious, rather than merely existing in passive …
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Techno-Salvation: Developing a Christian Hermeneutic of Enhancement Technology
… it is unavoidable for Christians to engage transhumanism and posthumanism in an attempt to help guide which technologies should be pursued and which should be avoided. This project works toward that end.<p> Beginning with competing views of what it means to be human the common positions of …
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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
… with the science fiction genre, such as transhumanism, alien invasion and time travel. In performing this process, Wells is recast as a writer and thinker who demonstrates resonance with Deleuze’s theoretical approach. Having established the value of a Deleuzian reading via the medium of …
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The antihuman unconscious in twenty-first century science fiction cinema: structure of feeling, the political unconscious, and problematising the human in science fiction films produced since 1999
… are connected with the alternative humanisms – transhumanism, posthumanism, and antihumanism – which have reconceptualised and problematised the human in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. To examine how the antihuman unconscious manifests in science fiction cinema, this thesis …
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Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence"
… bigotry and systemic social projects (eugenics, transhumanism, and "supercrip" narratives), revealing their foundation in white supremacist colonialist myths of whose and which kinds of lives count as "truly human." We will examine how these myths become embedded into the religious practices, …
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