“Cisgender,” is a term first attributed to German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch and his coining of the term “cis-sexual” in the mid 1990’s (Sigusch 1995). In a 2015 interview (German language, found here) Sigusch explains his reasoning for the coinage, citing… Read More ›
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Embodying ‘Necro-Waste’: On Toxic Discourse, Mark D. West
In previous discussions of necro-waste, I think that social epistemology has taken an important step by discussing what seems to be a constellation of concepts (“corpse”, “cadaver”, “remains”, “body”, “necro-waste”) which serve to describe, more than anything else, a set… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 2, February 2022
Volume 11, Issue 2, 1-60, February 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Beeghly, Erin. 2022. “The Constitutive Claim: Payoffs and Perils.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (2): 52-60. ❧ Fuller, Steve 2022. “Seven Heresies.” Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›
Transhumanism in the Schools Redux, Steve Fuller
On 7 February 2022, at the request of one of my former Warwick students, Juvan Gowreeswara, I visited Lady Margaret School in London, one of the UK’s leading girls’ schools, to talk about transhumanism. It wasn’t the first time I… Read More ›
Enhancing Human Existence: Mercer and Trothen’s Religion and the Technological Future, Des Hewitt
Without intending to be distasteful, let alone insensitive, it seems fitting that the publication of Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism (2021) by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen should take place during… Read More ›
Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part II, William T. Lynch
Steve Fuller’s work on transhumanism is interesting because it forces us to think about the long-term trajectory of the human species and the knowledge and technology it is likely to build in the future. He is surely right that the… Read More ›
Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part I, William T. Lynch
Zombie movies express for us the horror that would take place if the dead did not go away so that the living could pursue existence unimpeded by the dead hand of history. The horror is an inversion of the desire… Read More ›
What is Right and Wrong with Social Engineering? Alexandra A. Argamakova
This article addresses ongoing questions regarding the conception and practice of social engineering. Social engineering appeals to a set of diverse concepts which marks the beginning of professional sociology and scientific management in America and Western Europe. I trace the… Read More ›
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0, Tikhon Sysoev
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0 The following interview with Steve Fuller, conducted by Tikhon Sysoev, appeared in the 23 November 2020 edition of Expert, the Russian equivalent of Economist magazine. The interview appeared under the title: “Стив Фуллер:… Read More ›