Author : James A. Herrick
Release : 2017-03-03
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 77X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visions of Technological Transcendence by : James A. Herrick
Download or read book Visions of Technological Transcendence written by James A. Herrick. This book was released on 2017-03-03. 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.