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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"transhuman"”.
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Life Expansion: Toward an Artistic, Design-Based Theory of the Transhuman / Posthuman
… a new axis is sought that identifies the transhuman and posthuman as conceptual paradigms for life expansion. The thesis asks: What are the required conditions that enable artistic, design-based approaches to human enhancement that explicitly pursue extending human life? This question …
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Cyborgs in the Studio: Transhuman Vocal Approaches in Gender Nonconforming Recording Artists
… voice studies, embodied cognition, and post- and transhumanism. Chapter 2 examines three songs by genderfluid artist Dorian Electra (they/them): “Career Boy,” “Adam and Steve,” and “Ram It Down,” arguing that timbral shifts accomplished via post-production modification provide a means of …
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
… ongoing global political and ecological crises, transhumanists proselytize visions of a more equitable, healthy future made possible by advanced computation. Beyond the curative potential of technoscience, transhumanism seeks to transcend the biological limits of the human body, including death. …
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Assigned Disaster at Birth
… space alien stuck in a humanoid body, a trans transhuman, written mostly in verse. The space alien speaker of these poems moves through multiple marginalized human identities ultimately remembering it isn't human at all. Through these poems, the speaker forms solidarities with nonhuman kin, …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… fiction studies and related to human evolution: transhuman and posthuman. I suggest that a reading of the novel that prioritizes the pervasive influence of evolutionary theory on Victorian literature encourages a reading of vampires as a posthuman species. Charles Darwin’s <em>On the Origin of …
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Philosophy of Technology 'Un-Disciplined'
… philosophers of technology present posthuman and transhuman perspectives that emphasize the symbiotic relationships between humans and technology. Thus, they deny disciplined philosophy's first critical maneuver: define and demarcate. UPoT enables conversations and debate regarding the ontological …
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… <em>Übermenschen</em> will one day inaugurate a transhuman future and create a higher culture for the flourishing of greatness that secondarily edifies the multitude with the meaning and purpose great works provide.</p> <p>I conclude that if humankind succeeds in transfiguring itself through the …