Visions of Technological Transcendence

Visions of Technological Transcendence
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781602358775
ISBN-13 : 160235877X
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Download or read book Visions of Technological Transcendence written by James A. Herrick and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.


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