Transhumanism: from ancestors to avatars
"The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it provides an anthropological analysis of the transhumanist technological imagination. It explores the visions and values that animate transhumanist initiatives in the contemporary United states, and it explores the various ways transhumanists seek...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it provides an anthropological analysis of the transhumanist technological imagination. It explores the visions and values that animate transhumanist initiatives in the contemporary United states, and it explores the various ways transhumanists seek to use science and technology to usher in an enhanced posthuman future. Second, the book uses the study of transhumanism as a way to introduce a new generation of students to the discipline of cultural anthropology. In classic anthropological fashion, it argues that transhumanism can be better understood by approaching it from a comparative perspective. It shows how transhumanist efforts to transform the future of our species speak to a longstanding set of concerns within the discipline of cultural anthropology"-- |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Through Transhumanism A “Back to the Future” Approach to Transhumanism Technology, the Imagination, and the Future The Anthropology of Transhumanism Overview of Chapters A Note on Methods 1 2 Is Transhumanism a Revitalization Movement? 1.1 Revitalization 1.1.1 Transhumanism and Cold War Cultural Distortion in the United States 1.1.2 Phase I: Mazeway Reformulation 1.1.3 Phase II: Communication 1.1.4 Phase III: Organization 1.1.5 Phase IV: Adaptation 1.1.6 Phase V: Cultural Transformation 1.1.7 Phase VI: Routinization 1.2 Conclusion: Revitalization Movements and Models Ancestors and Avatars: Immortality Transformed 2.1 The Making of Ancestors 2.2 The Making of Avatars 2.3 Conclusion: The Very Human Quest for a Posthuman Immortality xi і 3 5 10 14 17 21 24 26 29 32 34 36 40 42 42 47 50 56 65 vii
Contents 3 4 Happily Ever After: Transhumanism and the Hedonistic Imperative 68 3.1 The Hedonistic Imperative 3.1.1 The Transhumanist Worldview 3.2 Post-Darwinian Culture and Personality 3.2.1 Replacing Suffering with Gradients of Bliss 3.2.2 Biochemical Efficiency 3.2.3 Enhanced Sociality 3.2.4 Biology and Its Discontents: From Repression and Sublimation to Eradication 3.2.5 Biochemical Creativity and Beauty “On Demand” 3.2.6 Choices, Euphoria, and Productivity 3.2.7 Endless Expansion, Continual Dynamism, and Total Control 3.3 The Hedonistic Imperative, the Technological Imagination, and the Regime of Flexible Accumulation 3.4 Conclusion: Plasticity and Progress 71 72 78 78 81 83 84 86 89 91 91 93 The Social Skin, the Antisocial Skin, and the Pursuit of Morphological Freedom 96 4.1 The Kayapo and the Social Skin 99 4.2 Modern Primitives and the Antisocial Skin 102 4.3 The Transhumanist Pursuit of Morphological Freedom 104 4.3.1 From the Social Skin to the Subdermal Implant 105 4.3.2 Species Freedom 110 4.3.3 Ecotogenesis and Posthuman Social Reproduction 112 4.3.4 Freeing the Brain and Becoming Remarkable 114 4.3.5 Body Augmentation: Freedom and “Fixes” 120 4.4 Conclusion: The Sovereign Skin, Morphological Freedom, and Technonormativity 123 5 viii Decoding the Self 127 5.1 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 5.2 The Transhumanist Self and Its Behavioral Environment 5.2.1 Personhood Is in the Mind 5.2.2 The Embodied and Quantified Self 129 134 134 136
Contents 5.3 6 7 5.2.3 Extending Personhood in the Posthuman World 5.2.4 The Power of Intelligence 5.2.5 Benevolence or Malevolence? Conclusion: Selves and Similarities 140 143 149 152 Rethinking Kinship Systems 6.1 American Kinship in the Twentieth Century 6.2 Kinship in the Posthuman Future 6.2.1 From the Biological to the Vitological: Making Digital Kin 6.2.2 Caring Companions: Robotic Kin 6.2.3 The New Biology of Kinship: Designer Babies and Selective Reproduction 6.2.4 The Post-kinship Society 6.2.5 Life without Fathers, Mothers, Husbands, or Wives: Family in the Postgender Society 155 156 160 6.3 Conclusion: Critiquing Kinship 179 From Original Affluence to Posthuman Abundance 7.1 Affluence without Abundance 7.2 The Society of Radical Abundance: Nanotechnology and Postindustrial Production 7.3 The Bold Path to Abundance 7.3.1 The Future Is Better than You Think: Overcoming Cognitive Biases and Linear Thinking 7.3.2 The Forces for Abundance 7.3.2.1 The DIY Innovator and the Social Entrepreneur 7.3.2.2 The Technophilanthropists 7.3.2.3 The Rising Billion 7.4 Democratic Transhumanism and Ensuring Access to the Means of Subsistence 7.4.1 The Forces for Equality 7.4.1.1 The Promise of Technology 7.4.1.2 The Power of Democratic Governance 182 183 160 165 167 173 175 187 193 195 199 199 202 204 206 209 209 210 ix
Contents 7.5 7.4.2 Ensuring a Means of Subsistence: From the Zen Road to Affluence to the Cyborg Road 212 Conclusion: Radical Abundance or Pervasive Inequality? 214 Conclusion: Back to the Future: Reflections on a Discipline and a Movement The Comparative Study of Humankind The Value of Ancestors The Transhumanist Movement The Power of Technology, Technologists, and the Technological Imagination 217 218 222 224 231 Notes 236 Bibliography 257 Index 281 x
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Through Transhumanism A “Back to the Future” Approach to Transhumanism Technology, the Imagination, and the Future The Anthropology of Transhumanism Overview of Chapters A Note on Methods 1 2 Is Transhumanism a Revitalization Movement? 1.1 Revitalization 1.1.1 Transhumanism and Cold War Cultural Distortion in the United States 1.1.2 Phase I: Mazeway Reformulation 1.1.3 Phase II: Communication 1.1.4 Phase III: Organization 1.1.5 Phase IV: Adaptation 1.1.6 Phase V: Cultural Transformation 1.1.7 Phase VI: Routinization 1.2 Conclusion: Revitalization Movements and Models Ancestors and Avatars: Immortality Transformed 2.1 The Making of Ancestors 2.2 The Making of Avatars 2.3 Conclusion: The Very Human Quest for a Posthuman Immortality xi і 3 5 10 14 17 21 24 26 29 32 34 36 40 42 42 47 50 56 65 vii
Contents 3 4 Happily Ever After: Transhumanism and the Hedonistic Imperative 68 3.1 The Hedonistic Imperative 3.1.1 The Transhumanist Worldview 3.2 Post-Darwinian Culture and Personality 3.2.1 Replacing Suffering with Gradients of Bliss 3.2.2 Biochemical Efficiency 3.2.3 Enhanced Sociality 3.2.4 Biology and Its Discontents: From Repression and Sublimation to Eradication 3.2.5 Biochemical Creativity and Beauty “On Demand” 3.2.6 Choices, Euphoria, and Productivity 3.2.7 Endless Expansion, Continual Dynamism, and Total Control 3.3 The Hedonistic Imperative, the Technological Imagination, and the Regime of Flexible Accumulation 3.4 Conclusion: Plasticity and Progress 71 72 78 78 81 83 84 86 89 91 91 93 The Social Skin, the Antisocial Skin, and the Pursuit of Morphological Freedom 96 4.1 The Kayapo and the Social Skin 99 4.2 Modern Primitives and the Antisocial Skin 102 4.3 The Transhumanist Pursuit of Morphological Freedom 104 4.3.1 From the Social Skin to the Subdermal Implant 105 4.3.2 Species Freedom 110 4.3.3 Ecotogenesis and Posthuman Social Reproduction 112 4.3.4 Freeing the Brain and Becoming Remarkable 114 4.3.5 Body Augmentation: Freedom and “Fixes” 120 4.4 Conclusion: The Sovereign Skin, Morphological Freedom, and Technonormativity 123 5 viii Decoding the Self 127 5.1 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 5.2 The Transhumanist Self and Its Behavioral Environment 5.2.1 Personhood Is in the Mind 5.2.2 The Embodied and Quantified Self 129 134 134 136
Contents 5.3 6 7 5.2.3 Extending Personhood in the Posthuman World 5.2.4 The Power of Intelligence 5.2.5 Benevolence or Malevolence? Conclusion: Selves and Similarities 140 143 149 152 Rethinking Kinship Systems 6.1 American Kinship in the Twentieth Century 6.2 Kinship in the Posthuman Future 6.2.1 From the Biological to the Vitological: Making Digital Kin 6.2.2 Caring Companions: Robotic Kin 6.2.3 The New Biology of Kinship: Designer Babies and Selective Reproduction 6.2.4 The Post-kinship Society 6.2.5 Life without Fathers, Mothers, Husbands, or Wives: Family in the Postgender Society 155 156 160 6.3 Conclusion: Critiquing Kinship 179 From Original Affluence to Posthuman Abundance 7.1 Affluence without Abundance 7.2 The Society of Radical Abundance: Nanotechnology and Postindustrial Production 7.3 The Bold Path to Abundance 7.3.1 The Future Is Better than You Think: Overcoming Cognitive Biases and Linear Thinking 7.3.2 The Forces for Abundance 7.3.2.1 The DIY Innovator and the Social Entrepreneur 7.3.2.2 The Technophilanthropists 7.3.2.3 The Rising Billion 7.4 Democratic Transhumanism and Ensuring Access to the Means of Subsistence 7.4.1 The Forces for Equality 7.4.1.1 The Promise of Technology 7.4.1.2 The Power of Democratic Governance 182 183 160 165 167 173 175 187 193 195 199 199 202 204 206 209 209 210 ix
Contents 7.5 7.4.2 Ensuring a Means of Subsistence: From the Zen Road to Affluence to the Cyborg Road 212 Conclusion: Radical Abundance or Pervasive Inequality? 214 Conclusion: Back to the Future: Reflections on a Discipline and a Movement The Comparative Study of Humankind The Value of Ancestors The Transhumanist Movement The Power of Technology, Technologists, and the Technological Imagination 217 218 222 224 231 Notes 236 Bibliography 257 Index 281 x |
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