Aug 2026· Social research· Vol 93, pp. 597 - 623· 0 citations· 9 references
Abstract
ABSTRACT:Transhumanism posits humanity’s evolution by technological means. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, nano-technology, and genetics have shifted it toward the center of academic discourse and mainstream culture. Embraced by Silicon Valley billionaires as well as scholars, transhumanism comprises a full-blown movement. It shares features with Christian soteriology and is sometimes called a “techno-religion” or “secular theology.” It rejects the supernatural, however, arguing that technology will deliver humanity from death. An aggressively futurist mode of thought, transhumanism nevertheless has origins in the medieval past. In seeking to disavow these roots, it has inadvertently defined itself against them.
This article examines transhumanism as an intellectual and cultural movement aimed at overcoming human biological limitations through technology. It analyzes the term's evolution from mid-20th-century futurological concepts to contemporary philosophical discourse. Particular attention is paid to the concept of «posthum...
V. V. Chernyshenko· Abyss (Studies in Philosophy...· 0 citations
This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen· Development and Change· 0 citations
The attempt by neo-Aristotelian naturalists such as Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson to ground the objective validity of ethical principles in human nature has met with significant criticism. In particular, critics often reject the concept of life-form central to this view as incompatible with modern scientific biolo...
Transhumanism, the philosophical and technological movement that seeks to transcend the
biological limits of the human condition through science, is increasingly present in African
life through artificial intelligence, genetic technologies, and digital medicine, yet it has
received little sustained attention from Af...
Adeniji Jeremiah Olalekan· International Journal of Rel...· 0 citations
This essay considers the methodology involved in John Weever’s type of seventeenth-century English antiquarianism, which includes observation and speculation that use literary texts and historical information to understand the past. This work is a distantly related example of what might be called “critical antiquaria...
Brandi K. Adams· Modern Language Quarterly: A...· 0 citations
Abstract:John Galsworthy's fiction has been too easily dismissed by (modernist) literary history. His most famous work—The Forsyte Saga—offers a scathing critique of imperial England. Yet, over the course of the trilogy, his satire is gradually overtaken by a sentimental preoccupation with national continuity. His nove...
Leo Kadokura· MFS: Modern Fiction Studies· 0 citations
We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads.
See our Cookie Policy.
