Visions of Technological Transcendence

Visions of Technological Transcendence
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-13 : 9781602358782
ISBN-10 : 1602358788
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Book Synopsis Visions of Technological Transcendence by : James A. Herrick

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 217 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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