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  • - An Introduction
     
    531,-

    Post- and Transhumanism are being introduced with respect to foundational questions, utopian issues, normative and evaluative elements, ontological perspectives and arts. The topics are divided up into five sections with the following titles: Confessions, Lands of Cockaygne, Neo-Socratic Reflections, Ontologies of Becoming and Paragone of the Arts.

  • av Sarah Jonckheere
    419,-

    The book brings to light Neal Stephenson's answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. Using affect theory and its applications to literature, it explores how operations of subjectivation emerge in Neal Stephenson's technological novel "The Diamond Age".

  • av Elizabeth C. Butterfield
    457,-

    The postmodern deconstruction of the human now requires a reconstructive moment. The author argues that the individual and the social should be understood as existing within a dynamic, co-constituting interrelation, and that individual autonomy is not at odds with, but rather fundamentally enabled by, the social.

  • - Anthropology, Ethics, Religion- In cooperation with Nikola Grimm
     
    552,-

    What are the basic principles of evolutionary processes? Is it morally legitimate to influence evolution by means of enhancement technologies? Leading scholars from various disciplines analyze the relevance of evolutionary theory for future developments, whereby the fields of anthropology, ethics, and theology are considered in particular detail.

  • av Stephen Clark
    657,-

    What is the likely future of our species? What sort of global religious feeling is likely to prevail? How far can we go in engineering living artefacts, or our own descendants? In this book, the author introduces science fiction writers and contemporary philosophers alike to the riches of their twin traditions.

  • - Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism
     
    1 073,-

    Building Better Humans?

  • av Bogdana Koljevic
    403,-

    In order to articulate contemporary biopolitics the author examines Foucault's, Hardt's and Negri's theories. Phenomena of military interventions, terrorism and wars against terrorism are presented as contemporary biopolitics. The events such as the Arab Spring, OWS movement and the gap between EU forms and European realities are also analyzed.

  • - A Social Study of Robotics
    av Riccardo Campa
    574,-

    This book explores some of the projects on which robotic engineers are presently working and the possible futures generated by the development of artificial intelligence. Its main focus is on the social dimensions of robotics. It examines sociological, economic, ethical, and political problems related to the developments of industrial, domestic, entertainment, and military robotics.

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    823,-

    The essays in this volume consider the relevant historical discourses, important contemporary philosophical reflections as well as artistic perspectives on the relationship between Humanism and Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism. Leading scholars of many different traditions, countries and disciplines have contributed to this collection.

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