The concept of transhumanism has risen to prominence in the early 21st century. Work from futurist thinkers such as Ray Kurzweil,[1] Nick Bostrom,[2] and Max Tegmark have fueled a popular understanding of artificial intelligence and genetic enhancement.[3] Mainstream culture has… Read More ›
What is most interesting about Calamity Theory is the irony at its heart. Using the problematics of the existentialist tradition to critique Nick Bostrom’s existential risk project is fruitful. Despite the coincidence of word choice, existentialist philosophy has so little… Read More ›
“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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 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 ›
In this forum, members and associates of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective examine significant issues and contestations arising in and beyond the era of COVID-19. A focal point arises as we consider whether or not to think of… Read More ›