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Transhumanism : from ancestors to avatars / Jenny Huberman.
Author
Huberman, Jennifer
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 292 pages)
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Transhumanism
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Series
New departures in anthropology
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Summary note
Transhumanists argue that science and technology will enable us to overcome our biological limitations, both mental and physical, and create a radically enhanced posthuman species and society. In this book, Jenny Huberman examines the values and visions animating the Transhumanist Movement in the United States today, whilst at the same time using the study of transhumanism as a way to introduce a new generation of students to the discipline of cultural anthropology. She explores transhumanist conceptions of revitalization, immortality, the good life, the self, the body, kinship and economy, and compares them to the belief systems of human beings living in other times and places. Providing lively ethnographic insights into a fascinating contemporary socio-cultural movement, this book will be invaluable to students and researchers in anthropology, as well as anyone interested in the phenomenon of transhumanism.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
Contents
Introduction: Thinking through Transhumanism
Intro.1. A back to the future approach to transhumanism
Intro. 2. Technology, the imagination, and the future
Intro. 3. The anthropology of transhumanism
Intro. 4. Overview of Chapters 24
Intro. 5. A note on methods
Chapter 1: Is transhumanism a revitalization movement?
Chapter 2: Ancestors and avatars: Immortality transformed
Chapter 3: Happily ever after: Transhumanism and the hedonistic imperative
Chapter 4: The social skin, the anti social skin, and the pursuit of morphological freedom
Chapter 5: Decoding the self
Chapter 6: Rethinking kinship systems
Chapter 7: From original affluence to posthuman abundance.
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ISBN
9781108869577 (ebook)
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