Visions of technological transcendence : human enhancement and the rhetoric of the future
(2017)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Parlor Press, LLC, 2017
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781602358782 (electronic bk.) MWT14757848, 1602358788 (electronic bk.) 14757848
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization
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