Essays about: "Transhumanism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word Transhumanism.

1. 1. Transcending Power: Investigating the European Union as a Mouthpiece for Transhumanist Thought

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Amos Strömberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Foucauldian discourse analysis; transhumanism; the European Union; sociotechnical imaginaries; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study arises from an existential concern that there is an obliviousness in academia with regards to the recent eruption of the transhumanist movement–an ideological force imbued with potentially calamitous socioecological consequences. With the support from recent claims that the transhumanist ideology exerts powerful influence on Western politics, this study seeks to investigate how the transhumanist ideology has become diluted into parts of the European Union and why this should be a concern from a human ecology lens. READ MORE

3. 2. The transhumanist project, values, and views on human enhancement. : A study on the desirability of transhumanism.

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Niklas Hult; [2022]
   Keywords : Transhumanism; human enhancement; values;

   Abstract : This essay discusses the futuristic view of radical human enhancement through the lenses of the transhumanist project. The focus of the essay is on the transhumanistic values proposed by Nick Bostrom, and the technological progress that transhumanism proposes. READ MORE

4. 3. Bodies, current vehicles, or embodied agents? : An anthropological study of the human body and the human condition in an age of Transhumanism

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Ingrid Bäckström; [2020]
   Keywords : Transhumanism; Body; Human Condition; Ontology; Cryonics; Mind Uploading; Primo Posthuman;

   Abstract : Transhumanism is a philosophy and a contemporary movement dedicated to improving the human condition in various ways. This thesis explores how the transhumanist movement contributes to the contemporary conceptualization or reconceptualization of the human body and the human condition. READ MORE

5. 4. Overcoming the Human Condition : An Arendtian analysis of the antipolitical tendencies in transhumanism

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Alexander Hjelm; [2020]
   Keywords : transhumanism; Arendt; depoliticization; action; diversity; political philosophy; human enhancement;

   Abstract : This article critically analyses transhumanism, an ideological movement that advocates the radical biomodification of the human body in order to overcome our deficiencies and progress towards our next phase in evolution. Following previous criticism against the depoliticization within transhumanism, the article will aim to highlight the difficulty within transhumanism to balance the respect for diversity against the imperative for human enhancement. READ MORE

6. 5. The Human Non-Human Boundary in 'Dune'
 – An Ontological Reading through a Comparative Nietzschean and Transhuman Framework

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Kiti Misha; [2020]
   Keywords : Frank Herbert; Dune; Science Fiction; Nietzsche; Overhuman; Transhumanism; Posthuman; Transhumanism; Human; Nonhuman;

   Abstract : In Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga, we find a transhumanist and Nietzschean argument about the evolution of humans achieved as a result of the triggering effect of the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. I claim that the metamorphoses of the selected characters reflect the central tenants of the transformation of Nietzsche’s overhuman, or transhumanism’s posthuman. READ MORE