[PDF] Transhumanisms And Biotechnologies In Consumer Society eBook

Author : Jennifer Takhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000789063

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Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society offers new, critical perspectives on the impact of 'life-enhancing' technological advancements on consumer identity positions and market evolutions. Technoprogressive innovations that include body modification technologies and reproductive technologies have enabled people to transcend bodily constraints. In parallel, they provoke necessary, critical interrogation around human capabilities, technological possibilities, gender equality, feminism, personal identity, bioethics, markets and morality. The contributions in this book re-evaluate these topics and elucidate some of the vexed relationships between consumers of biotechnologies and markets they consider restrictive or misleading. Secondly, by illustrating consumers’ questioning of and resistance to biomedical, market imperatives, they highlight how the notion of consumer sovereignty, consumer influence over markets, has now advanced into novel forms of consumer activism made manifest through contemporary health justice movements. The chapters in this book also uncover profoundly personal consumer accounts on coping with and managing bodies-in-transition, focusing on illness, self-perception, survivorship and the vicissitudes of these corporeal experiences. This book will allow readers to understand how accelerated technological market changes are being experienced and creatively countered at the societal and individual level. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.

Author : Stephen Lilley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400749813

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This book provides an introductory overview to the social debate over enhancement technologies with an overview of the transhumanists' call to bypass human nature and conservationists' argument in defense of it. The author present this controversy as it unfolds in the contest between transhumanists proponents and conservationists, who push back with an argument to conserve human nature and to ban enhancement technologies. This book provides an overview of the key contested points and present the debate in an orderly, constructive fashion. Readers are informed about the discussion over humanism, the tension between science and religion, and the interpretation of socio-technological revolutions; and are invited to make up their own mind about one of the most challenging topics concerning the social and ethical implications of technological advancements.

Author : Emma Tumilty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031143280

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This book surveys the distinctions that underlie the unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications posed by a transhuman world. Humanness is in flux as human bodies are being hacked and altered in their quest for super wellness, super intelligence and super longevity. Now is the time to discuss how best to think about dealing with bodies that have been hacked to exceed natural physical limits or more technically, species typical functioning. Enter the advent of transhumanism to take uncertainty by the horns. According to transhumanists, death is unnecessary and medical conventions undermine the possibility to radically evolve. To biohackers, there is no need to wait to explore the risks that conventional medicine dares not. This book is of interest to anyone interested in tapping into this growing movement of modifying the human body as it is right now.

Author : S. Fuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137302925

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The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.

Author : Ebénézer Njoh Mouelle
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 2140084578

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The author proposes a synthesis of the ideas of « Transhumanism » and critical analyzes inspired by a refreshing Bergsonism. He writes to take a part in the debate on the futur of humanity, sparked by the scientific-philosophical movement that bears this name, started in the United States and which is beginning to move the European intelligentsia. He also writes to sensitize an african opinion far unaware of these preoccupations that concern all humankind.

Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780271087924

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Transhumanism is widely misunderstood, in part because the media has exaggerated current technologies and branded the movement as dangerous, leading many to believe that hybrid humans may soon walk among us and that immortality, achieved by means of mind-uploading, is imminent. In this essential and clarifying volume, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner debunks widespread myths about transhumanism and tackles head-on the most pressing ethical issues in the debate over technologically assisted human enhancement. On Transhumanism is a vital primer on the subject, written by a world-renowned expert. In this book, Sorgner presents an overview of the movement's history, capably summarizing the twelve pillars of transhumanist discourse and explaining the great diversity of transhumanist responses to each individual topic. He highlights the urgent ethical challenges related to the latest technological developments, inventions, and innovations and compares the unique cultural standing of transhumanism to other cultural movements, placing it within the broader context of the Enlightenment, modernity, postmodernity, and the philosophical writings of Nietzsche. Engagingly written and translated and featuring an introduction for North American readers, this comprehensive overview of the cultural and philosophical movement of transhumanism will be required reading for students of post-humanist philosophy and for general audiences interested in learning about the transhumanist movement.

Author : Veda
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2023-10-14
Category :
ISBN : 9783631903544

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The book analyses the ideas of transhumanism and posthumanism from several philosophical perspectives and how they overlap with artistic expression. It explores the possible ontological, ethical, and social implications associated with the fulfilment of this vision. It analyses their influence on literary, visual, cinematic, and digital art.

Author : Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030565467

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This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea. The volume is organized into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and sociological aspects of transhumanism, but the reader is free to choose various reading patterns. Topics discussed include gene editing, the singularity, ethical machines, metaphors in AI, mind uploading, and the philosophy of art, and some perspectives taken or discussed examine transhumanism within the context of the philosophy of technology, transhumanism as a derailed anthropology, and critical sociological aspects that consider transhumanism in the context of topical concerns such as whiteness, maleness, and masculinity. The book will be of value to researchers engaged with artificial intelligence, and the ethical, societal, and philosophical impacts of science and technology.