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Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension
AvC. Mercer,D. Maher
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 106 kr
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If the science of 'radical life extension' is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on humanity than any other development in history. This book is the first concerted effort to explore implications of radical life extension from the perspective of the world's major religious traditions.
Transhumanism and the Body
The World Religions Speak
AvC. Mercer,D. Maher
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
557 kr
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This collection of original articles, a sequel of sorts to the 2009 Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan), is the first sustained reflection, by scholars with expertise in the faith traditions, on how the transhumanist agenda might impact the body.
Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension
AvC. Mercer,D. Maher
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
1 106 kr
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If the science of 'radical life extension' is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on humanity than any other development in history. This book is the first concerted effort to explore implications of radical life extension from the perspective of the world's major religious traditions.
Ecology, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity
AvAdam Riggio
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
557 kr
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A book that combines moral and political philosophy with traditions of activism and literature in a background of scientific knowledge and interpretation to build a comprehensive picture of an ecological humanity.
Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension
AvC. Mercer,D. Maher
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 164 kr
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If the science of 'radical life extension' is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on humanity than any other development in history. This book is the first concerted effort to explore implications of radical life extension from the perspective of the world's major religious traditions.
Transhumanism and the Body
The World Religions Speak
AvC. Mercer,D. Maher
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
557 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection of original articles, a sequel of sorts to the 2009 Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan), is the first sustained reflection, by scholars with expertise in the faith traditions, on how the transhumanist agenda might impact the body.
Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church
Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow
AvSteve Donaldson,Ron Cole-Turner
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 656 kr
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Christians have always been concerned with enhancement—now they are faced with significant questions about how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation. What makes traditional and technological enhancement different from each other? Are there theological insights and spiritual practices that can help Christians face the challenge of living in a technological world without being dangerously conformed to its values? This book calls on Christians to understand and engage the deep issues facing the church in a technological, transhumanist future.
Muslim and Supermuslim
The Quest for the Perfect Being and Beyond
AvRoy Jackson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 031 kr
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This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps the poorer cousin, of a new Humanity 2.0: ‘Man’ is replaced by ‘Superman’. The contribution that Islam can make to this movement concerns the central question of what this ‘Superman’ – or ‘Supermuslim’ – would actually entail. To look at what Islam can contribute we need not restrict ourselves to the Qur’an and the legal tradition, but also reach out to its philosophical and literary corpus. Roy Jackson focuses on such contributions from Muslim philosophy, science, and literature to see how Islam can confront and respond to the challenges raised by the growing movement of transhumanism.
Muslim and Supermuslim
The Quest for the Perfect Being and Beyond
AvRoy Jackson
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
1 031 kr
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This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps the poorer cousin, of a new Humanity 2.0: ‘Man’ is replaced by ‘Superman’. The contribution that Islam can make to this movement concerns the central question of what this ‘Superman’ – or ‘Supermuslim’ – would actually entail. To look at what Islam can contribute we need not restrict ourselves to the Qur’an and the legal tradition, but also reach out to its philosophical and literary corpus. Roy Jackson focuses on such contributions from Muslim philosophy, science, and literature to see how Islam can confront and respond to the challenges raised by the growing movement of transhumanism.
Transhumanism as a New Social Movement
The Techno-Centred Imagination
AvJames Michael MacFarlane
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
886 kr
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This book explores Technological Human Enhancement Advocacy through ethnographically inspired participant observation across a range of sites. James Michael MacFarlane argues that such advocacy is characterized by ‘Techno-centrism,' a belief grounded in today’s world while being also future-oriented and drawn from the imagination. This blurring of ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ futures borrows from the materialist grounding of the scientific worldview, while granting extended license to visions for technology as an enabler of forward-facing action, which include reviving humanist ideals associated with the modernization project. While Techno-centrism is arguably most pronounced in transhumanism—where it is acted-out in extreme, almost hyperbolic ways—it reflects more generally held, deep-seeded concerns around the future of science, technology and human self-identity in the new millennium. Far from being new, these emerging social forms capture unresolved ambivalences which have longcast a shadow over late-modern society and culture.
Transhumanism as a New Social Movement
The Techno-Centred Imagination
AvJames Michael MacFarlane
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
886 kr
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This book explores Technological Human Enhancement Advocacy through ethnographically inspired participant observation across a range of sites. James Michael MacFarlane argues that such advocacy is characterized by ‘Techno-centrism,' a belief grounded in today’s world while being also future-oriented and drawn from the imagination. This blurring of ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ futures borrows from the materialist grounding of the scientific worldview, while granting extended license to visions for technology as an enabler of forward-facing action, which include reviving humanist ideals associated with the modernization project. While Techno-centrism is arguably most pronounced in transhumanism—where it is acted-out in extreme, almost hyperbolic ways—it reflects more generally held, deep-seeded concerns around the future of science, technology and human self-identity in the new millennium. Far from being new, these emerging social forms capture unresolved ambivalences which have longcast a shadow over late-modern society and culture.
Thinking Through Climate Change
A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene
AvAdam Briggle
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
360 kr
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In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity). Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing sameness. From this perennial philosophical mystery, he argues that a high-energy civilization is bound to create more and more paradoxes. These paradoxes run like fissures through our orthodox picture of energy as the capacity to do work and control fate. Climate change is the accumulation of these fissures and the question is whether we can sustain technoscientific control and economic growth. It may be that our world is about change radically, imploring us to start thinking heterodox thoughts.
Are Cyborgs Persons?
An Account of Futurist Ethics
AvAleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 216 kr
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This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis. Relying on concepts of cultural realism and post-Darwinism, Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz redefines the notion of the person, rather than a human, and discusses the various issues of human body enhancement and online implants transforming modes of perception, cognition, and communication. She argues that new kinds of embodiment should not make acquiring the status of the person impossible, and different kinds of embodiments may be accepted socially and culturally. She proposes we consider ethical problems of agency and responsibility, critically approaching vitalist posthuman ethics, and rethinking the metaphysical standing of normativity, to create space for possible cyborgean ethics that may be executed in an Extended Republic of Humanity.
Are Cyborgs Persons?
An Account of Futurist Ethics
AvAleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
1 216 kr
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This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis. Relying on concepts of cultural realism and post-Darwinism, Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz redefines the notion of the person, rather than a human, and discusses the various issues of human body enhancement and online implants transforming modes of perception, cognition, and communication. She argues that new kinds of embodiment should not make acquiring the status of the person impossible, and different kinds of embodiments may be accepted socially and culturally. She proposes we consider ethical problems of agency and responsibility, critically approaching vitalist posthuman ethics, and rethinking the metaphysical standing of normativity, to create space for possible cyborgean ethics that may be executed in an Extended Republic of Humanity.
Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives
You Only Live Twice
AvDebra J. Bassett
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 106 kr
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This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic exploration of this phenomenon and presents qualitative data from three groups of participants: service providers, digital creators, and digital inheritors. For the bereaved, loss of data, lack of control, or digital obsolescence can lead to a second loss, and this book introduces the theory of ‘the fear of second loss’. Bassett argues that digital afterlives challenge and disrupt existing grief theories, suggesting how these theories might be expanded to accommodate digital inheritance.This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassett’s book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the‘intentional’ Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI) and their race to monetise the dead. This book provides an understanding of the profound effects uncontrollable timed posthumous messages and the creation of thanabots could have on the bereaved, and Bassett’s conception of a Digital Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI.Even in the digital societies of the West, we are far from immortal, but perhaps the question we really need to ask is: who wants to live forever?
Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives
You Only Live Twice
AvDebra J. Bassett
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
1 106 kr
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This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic exploration of this phenomenon and presents qualitative data from three groups of participants: service providers, digital creators, and digital inheritors. For the bereaved, loss of data, lack of control, or digital obsolescence can lead to a second loss, and this book introduces the theory of ‘the fear of second loss’. Bassett argues that digital afterlives challenge and disrupt existing grief theories, suggesting how these theories might be expanded to accommodate digital inheritance.This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassett’s book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the‘intentional’ Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI) and their race to monetise the dead. This book provides an understanding of the profound effects uncontrollable timed posthumous messages and the creation of thanabots could have on the bereaved, and Bassett’s conception of a Digital Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI.Even in the digital societies of the West, we are far from immortal, but perhaps the question we really need to ask is: who wants to live forever?
Julian Huxley, Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism
AvIngrid Dunér
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
557 kr
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The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) attempted to promote a “religion for the future,” which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. Transhumanism was an attempt to unite a more traditional humanistic view of the human as containing some form of core essence or potential with an evolutionary point of view of humans as a work in progress. Before humans, natural selection had been responsible for the transformation of life. Through its ordering principles and through chance, it had given rise to humankind, which had ushered in a new phase of evolution. Humanity stood on the threshold of yet another critical point in evolution: The consciously purposive phase of evolution. This open access book explores the history of transhumanism by analyzing how Julian Huxley’s transhumanism develops and why it does at this particular point in time, by placing it firmly within the context of his specific scientific and sociopolitical milieu, starting roughly in the interwar years and stretching over the Second World War to the 1970s. Continuing, the study then focuses on the new transhumanists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and investigates continuity in mode of thinking, contributing to a more coherent understanding of transhumanism, its history and of modern projects of human enhancement. The book captures how scientific and technological development in relation to society and social order shapes images and expectations of the future and of what future is desirable.
Julian Huxley, Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism
AvIngrid Dunér
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
447 kr
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The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) attempted to promote a “religion for the future,” which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. Transhumanism was an attempt to unite a more traditional humanistic view of the human as containing some form of core essence or potential with an evolutionary point of view of humans as a work in progress. Before humans, natural selection had been responsible for the transformation of life. Through its ordering principles and through chance, it had given rise to humankind, which had ushered in a new phase of evolution. Humanity stood on the threshold of yet another critical point in evolution: The consciously purposive phase of evolution. This open access book explores the history of transhumanism by analyzing how Julian Huxley’s transhumanism develops and why it does at this particular point in time, by placing it firmly within the context of his specific scientific and sociopolitical milieu, starting roughly in the interwar years and stretching over the Second World War to the 1970s. Continuing, the study then focuses on the new transhumanists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and investigates continuity in mode of thinking, contributing to a more coherent understanding of transhumanism, its history and of modern projects of human enhancement. The book captures how scientific and technological development in relation to society and social order shapes images and expectations of the future and of what future is desirable.
Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism
How to Delete the Manifest Image
AvPatrick Gamez
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
502 kr
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The core contention of this book is that, when viewed through the lens of contemporary posthuman theory, contemporary uses of AI under platform capitalism not only undermine our sense of the “human” but also our frameworks for conceptualizing ourselves as “subjects” or “selves” at all. This radical conclusion raises issues forces us to reckon with a new, disorienting horizon for critical thought at the intersection of technology and politics.This book demonstrates that two major streams of posthuman thought—namely, accelerationism and Prometheanism—can be interpreted as attempts to liberate our desires from our reason or our rationality from our all-too-human desire, each through the offloading of various tasks to emerging technologies. But, Patrick Gamez argues, the rise of opaque, unexplainable machine learning algorithms to predict and shape our behaviour undermines the common-sense models of mind through which we ultimately make sense of both the human and the posthuman.
Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism
How to Delete the Manifest Image
AvPatrick Gamez
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
502 kr
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The core contention of this book is that, when viewed through the lens of contemporary posthuman theory, contemporary uses of AI under platform capitalism not only undermine our sense of the “human” but also our frameworks for conceptualizing ourselves as “subjects” or “selves” at all. This radical conclusion raises issues forces us to reckon with a new, disorienting horizon for critical thought at the intersection of technology and politics.This book demonstrates that two major streams of posthuman thought—namely, accelerationism and Prometheanism—can be interpreted as attempts to liberate our desires from our reason or our rationality from our all-too-human desire, each through the offloading of various tasks to emerging technologies. But, Patrick Gamez argues, the rise of opaque, unexplainable machine learning algorithms to predict and shape our behaviour undermines the common-sense models of mind through which we ultimately make sense of both the human and the posthuman.
Technologies of the Future Self
An Ethics for Transhuman Flourishing
AvGeorg Theiner,Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 656 kr
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This volume is the first to articulate ethical foundations of transhumanism from perspectives focused on transhuman flourishing, as opposed to utilitarian or deontological approaches. Transhumanism is typically framed as a quest for “transcending biological limitations” and “unlocking human potential”—and thus perceived to be at odds with ethical conceptions of a “good life” that are substantively defined in terms of “human nature.” However, the concept of “human nature” is not a biological given but deeply bound up with metaphysical conceptions about what (trans)human futures are possible, desirable, and good. It invites ethical reflection on who we are, the value of embodiment and community to (trans)human existence, and who we might hope to become. The contributions collected in this volume offer a wide spectrum of visions for shaping the techno-progressive agenda of transhumanism in ethically grounded and socially responsible ways.
New Coordinates for Creative Hybrid Space-Experiences
AvBogna J. Gladden-Obidzińska,Adrián Kvokačkam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
875 kr
Kommande
This open access book offers a multifaceted exploration of the concept of hybridity as it manifests across creative, technological, and spatial dimensions. Divided into three thematic sections, it provides a spectrum of critical analyses of hybrid environments in everyday life, architecture, art, design, education, and their broader societal ramifications. The book serves as a thought-provoking contribution to the study of hybrid environments, offering insights into the transformative intersections of technology, creativity, and human experience within contemporary society. It is indispensable for readers seeking a nuanced understanding of the transformative intersections of technology, creativity, and societal change.
Techno-Utopianism and Everyday Practice in Sweden
New Technologies for Untold Futures
AvEric J. W. Orlowski
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 461 kr
Kommande
This book offers the first in-depth account of Swedish techno-utopianism and its everyday practices. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, it follows transhumanists, biohackers, cryonicists, and adjacent communities who believe that emerging technologies can address humanity’s greatest challenges and open radically transformed futures. Yet despite this expansive optimism, these groups often struggle to imagine futures that meaningfully diverge from the present, revealing a subtle tension between technological faith, everyday practice, and limited futural horizons.Tracing the historical and cultural roots of Swedish techno-optimism—from welfare-state modernism to Silicon Valley transhumanism and global techno-utopian networks—the book examines how hopes for progress are enacted through bodily experimentation, mundane routines, and references to ancient narratives such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. Offering rare empirical insight into an understudied Scandinavian context, it illuminates how technological imaginaries shape collective understandings of progress, possibility, politics, and the human future.
Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics
A Transhumanist Lesson for Emerging Technologies
AvAlcibiades Malapi-Nelson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 031 kr
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This book is a philosophical exploration of the theoretical causes behind the collapse of classical cybernetics, as well as the lesson that this episode can provide to current emergent technologies. Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson advances the idea that the cybernetic understanding of the nature of a machine entails ontological and epistemological consequences that created both material and theoretical conundrums. However, he proposes that given our current state of materials research, scientific practices, and research tools, there might be a way for cybernetics to flourish this time. The book starts with a historical and theoretical articulation of cybernetics in order to proceed with a philosophical explanation of its collapse—emphasizing the work of Alan Turing, Ross Ashby and John von Neumann. Subsequently, Malapi-Nelson unveils the common metaphysical signature shared between cybernetics and emergent technologies, identifying this signature as transhumanist in nature. Finally, avenues of research that may allow these disruptive technologies to circumvent the cybernetic fate are indicated. It is proposed that emerging technologies ultimately entail an affirmation of humanity.
Religion and Human Enhancement
Death, Values, and Morality
AvTracy J. Trothen,Calvin Mercer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 876 kr
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This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history. Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.
Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics
A Transhumanist Lesson for Emerging Technologies
AvAlcibiades Malapi-Nelson
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 031 kr
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This book is a philosophical exploration of the theoretical causes behind the collapse of classical cybernetics, as well as the lesson that this episode can provide to current emergent technologies. Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson advances the idea that the cybernetic understanding of the nature of a machine entails ontological and epistemological consequences that created both material and theoretical conundrums. However, he proposes that given our current state of materials research, scientific practices, and research tools, there might be a way for cybernetics to flourish this time. The book starts with a historical and theoretical articulation of cybernetics in order to proceed with a philosophical explanation of its collapse—emphasizing the work of Alan Turing, Ross Ashby and John von Neumann. Subsequently, Malapi-Nelson unveils the common metaphysical signature shared between cybernetics and emergent technologies, identifying this signature as transhumanist in nature. Finally, avenues of research that may allow these disruptive technologies to circumvent the cybernetic fate are indicated. It is proposed that emerging technologies ultimately entail an affirmation of humanity.
Religion and Human Enhancement
Death, Values, and Morality
AvTracy J. Trothen,Calvin Mercer
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 876 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history. Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.
Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church
Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow
AvSteve Donaldson,Ron Cole-Turner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 656 kr
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Christians have always been concerned with enhancement—now they are faced with significant questions about how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation. What makes traditional and technological enhancement different from each other? Are there theological insights and spiritual practices that can help Christians face the challenge of living in a technological world without being dangerously conformed to its values? This book calls on Christians to understand and engage the deep issues facing the church in a technological, transhumanist future.

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Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors – serie

Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension

Transhumanism and the Body

Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension

Ecology, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity

Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension

Transhumanism and the Body

Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church

Muslim and Supermuslim

Muslim and Supermuslim

Transhumanism as a New Social Movement

Transhumanism as a New Social Movement

Thinking Through Climate Change

Are Cyborgs Persons?

Are Cyborgs Persons?

Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives

Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives

Julian Huxley, Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism

Julian Huxley, Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism

Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism

Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism

Technologies of the Future Self

New Coordinates for Creative Hybrid Space-Experiences

Techno-Utopianism and Everyday Practice in Sweden

Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics

Religion and Human Enhancement

Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics

Religion and Human Enhancement

Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church

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