An edition of Posthumanism
(2018)
Posthumanism
an Introductory Handbook
by Diana Walsh Pasulka and Michael Bess
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"Provides an introduction to a vast array of scholarly perspectives on emergent technologies and biotechnologies used to modify or augment the capabilities of human beings"--
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Posthumanism: An Introductory Handbook
Jan 05, 2018, MacMillan Reference Library, Macmillan Reference USA
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COVER; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; EDITORIAL BOARD; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: TRANS-, POST-, AND EMERGING HUMANS: WHAT DO WE MEAN?; BETWEEN PROGRESS AND ARMAGEDDON: THE STAKES OF OUR TIME; The Gospel Of Progress; Dystopia And Armageddon; Imagining A Posthuman World; Summary; Bibliography; ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (STS); Defining STS: Science And Technology Studies Or Science, Technology, And Society?; Essential Concepts In STS; STS And Posthumanism; Summary; Bibliography; CAN WE PREDICT THE MIDDLE-TERM FUTURE?; Early Predictors: A Brief History Of Prediction.
Predicting StormsEconomics; Bioscience; What Models Tell Us; Not-so-super Forecasters; Summary; Bibliography; IS MIND UPLOADING A REAL POSSIBILITY?; The Concept Of Mind Uploading; The Problem With Ghosts; The Problem With Branches; Summary; Bibliography; THE PREHISTORY OF THE POSTHUMAN; The Transhumanized Human: The Posthuman Of The Fourteenth Century; Early Modern Precedents: Intelligent Tools- Humans Extending Beyond Their Bodies; Teilhard De Chardin: The Internet Of Human Minds; McLuhan: A Global Village Connected By A Web Of Electric Media; Summary; Bibliography; PHARMACEUTICALS.
The Mid-twentieth-century Emergence Of NeuropharmacologyPharmaceutical Regulation And The Tranquilizer Era; Cosmetic Psychopharmacology And Neurology; Pharmaceuticalization Of Life And Health; Pharmacological Optimism; Pharmaceutical Cyborgs; Posthumanism, Feminism, And The New Materialism; Pharmaceutical Personhood And Performance; Drugs As Tools For Posthuman Selfhood; Summary; Bibliography; BIOELECTRONICS; The Body Electric; The Body Cybernetic; The Body Electronic; The Body Photonic; Prosthetic Gods; Summary; Bibliography; GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS; How Genes Help To Make You Who You Are.
Nature And NurtureToday's State Of The Art In Human Genetic Interventions; The Possibility Of Designer Babies; Knowing That You Were Partially Designed; Epigenetics: A New Pathway For Genetic Modification?; Artificial Chromosomes?; A Superhuman Civilization Of Genetically Modified Humans; Summary; Bibliography; REJUVENATION AND RADICALLY INCREASED HEALTH SPANS; The Three Stages Of The Superlongevity Revolution; The Global Mission To Extend The Human Life Span; The Ultrahuman Phenomenon: Expanding And Transforming Human Potential; Ultrahuman Or Transhuman.
Adjusting To The Superlongevity RevolutionSummary; Bibliography; RUNAWAY AI; The Singularity Defined; What Is Exponential Growth?; Singularities In Mathematics And Physics; How Will The Singularity Be Achieved?; Why The Singularity May Never Be Reached; Implications Of The Technological Singularity; The End Of Humanity?; Summary; Bibliography; A SKEPTIC'S PERSPECTIVE: IS THIS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN?; A Skeptic Weighs In; The Fallacy Of Technological Determinism; A Middle Way Between Techno-enthusiasm And Techno-skepticism; Summary; Bibliography; BUDDHIST UPLOADS; Self/no-self; Woman/man.
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