书目名称 | Transhumanism as a New Social Movement |
副标题 | The Techno-Centred I |
编辑 | James Michael MacFarlane |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/929/928646/928646.mp4 |
概述 | Defines and advances the emerging nexus between social movement theory and normative science and technology studies.Explores issues pertaining to the future of identity, technological advancements, an |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | cryogenics; crispr; human enhancement; identity politics; philosophy of the self |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40090-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-40092-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-40090-3Series ISSN 2945-6592 Series E-ISSN 2945-6606 |
issn_series | 2945-6592 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |