This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges, of the human in contemporary social ord

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunt

This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this po

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