Humanity 8.0, Season 2, Episodes 7 and 8: “The Case Against Death”. Listen to Professor Ingemar Patrick Linden, on his book, The Case Against Death, published by MIT Press in 2022, interviewed by Dr. Ahmed Bouzid. ❧ Season 2, Episode… Read More ›
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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 5 and 6
Humanity 8.0, Season 2, Episodes 5 and 6: “Transhumanism: An Islamic Perspective”. Listen to Professor Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), interviewed by Dr. Ahmed Bouzid. ❧ Season 2, Episode 5: https://youtu.be/8QQurlrOaYw…. Read More ›
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Episodes 11 and 12
Humanity 8.0, Episodes 11 and 12 are a conversation between Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the Transhumanist Party and author of the children’s book Death is Wrong, and Dr. Ahmed Bouzid, host of the podcast. ❧ Episode 11: https://youtu.be/kykZEdlQ2A8 ❧… Read More ›
Review of Stefan Lorenz Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs, Jason M. Pittman
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 ›
The Weak-Willed Heart of Transhumanism’s Dreaming, Adam Riggio
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 ›
Deadnames and Missing Chiralities: A Response to Steve Fuller’s “The Problem of Cishumanism”, Joshua Earle
“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 ›
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 ›