tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6073474087045844626..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Anarcho-Anti-Sexist Robot Cultist Decides Feminism Is Too Hard, Declares Himself A RobotDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-44396609367135784452013-01-03T07:01:00.163-08:002013-01-03T07:01:00.163-08:00Rudy Rucker's scifi epics feature partly organ...Rudy Rucker's scifi epics feature partly organic AI's who find out how to get high on drugs and then make their shapeshifter bodies (magnetic fields applied to mythological fluid metall-plastic imbedded with algae, mold and gene tweaked human neural cells) into giant copies of the Book of Mormon, and the LDS reaches out to its new Congregation ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-6498192639193188882012-12-25T13:56:31.389-08:002012-12-25T13:56:31.389-08:00I never fail to marvel at the quickness of Robot C...I never fail to marvel at the quickness of Robot Cultist minds.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-86041008326170915222012-12-25T13:54:48.773-08:002012-12-25T13:54:48.773-08:00>
http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry/is-t...> <br />http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry/is-the-technological-singularity-plausible<br /><br />In a world where carpenters are resurrected, anything is possible.<br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-73614069233724359392012-12-25T05:07:09.356-08:002012-12-25T05:07:09.356-08:00Happy solstice!
http://transhumanity.net/articles...Happy solstice!<br /><br />http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry/is-the-technological-singularity-plausibleKhanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14191101857598532784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-15088196263126182632012-12-24T14:06:52.196-08:002012-12-24T14:06:52.196-08:00Well, if you must stick out from the crowd, you ca...Well, if you must stick out from the crowd, you can be a pointy<br />polyhedron, I suppose.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />You might get thrown Dungeons and Dragons gamers.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-90208536752213254892012-12-24T12:38:59.489-08:002012-12-24T12:38:59.489-08:00Won't speak for him, but I am curious what mak...Won't speak for him, but I am curious what makes you think his comment might seem to imply such a view?Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-56950988479426316372012-12-24T12:21:25.454-08:002012-12-24T12:21:25.454-08:00>That is not a future! Sounds like homogenizati...>That is not a future! Sounds like homogenization and genocide of actually existing differences and diversity to me!<br /> <br />Would you say gender reassignment therapy is the homogenization and destruction of gender identities?Eudoxiahttp://wiki.transhumani.com/index.php?title=Main_Pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-66822545390192868812012-12-24T12:00:54.488-08:002012-12-24T12:00:54.488-08:00I think they should all go for the chrome dildo op...I think they should all go for the chrome dildo option -- I mean, it's not like they're fooling anyone anyway.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-32628244499369595902012-12-24T11:36:48.078-08:002012-12-24T11:36:48.078-08:00> The "future" is to be a floating me...> The "future" is to be a floating metal sphere with digitized<br />> patterns of thought and totally indistinct in terms of appearance<br />> and embodiment?<br /><br />Well, if you must stick out from the crowd, you can be a pointy<br />polyhedron, I suppose.<br /><br />Or -- a piece of Samsonite. Like the drones in Iain Banks'<br />"Culture" novels. But without wheels. They can fly, you<br />know.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-29499297040507002752012-12-24T11:18:36.603-08:002012-12-24T11:18:36.603-08:00Do I champion humanism? As I mentioned in an earli...Do I champion humanism? As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am a close and sympathetic reader of Fanon (and contemporary scholar Paul Gilroy who follows from him) both of whom demand, to say the least, a qualified embrace of humanist universalism aware of the actual limitations and violations facilitated via humanism, as well as the inadequacies of any too naive UN-humanism in current politics. I teach Foucault and Nietzsche at the University level, I do queer theory, I am an ethical vegetarian, it is a complicated business to ascribe humanism to me. Just saying.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-51023801934695036652012-12-24T09:56:13.172-08:002012-12-24T09:56:13.172-08:00Oh my gosh! The "future" is to be a floa...Oh my gosh! The "future" is to be a floating metal sphere with digitized patterns of thought and totally indistinct in terms of appearance and embodiment? NO SIREE! That is not a future! Sounds like homogenization and genocide of actually existing differences and diversity to me! These "transhumanists" are ludicrous and asinine in their conception of actual human struggles and the remedies to these struggles. I am glad I found this blog and tossed aside any notion of seriously considering transhumanism as a valid philosophy or prospect. SHEESH!<br /><br />*Although I must also point out Dale, me being A Very Serious Black Guy(pun intended). I am wary about the humanist aspirations that you champion, as well. Although, their methods and goals are far more realistic, I just can't shake the reality that these aspirations and notions have been historically defined by racist white men and women. This leads me to seriously question western values and ideals, akin to Nietzsche and question what exactly is there for me, as a black man, in the incomplete and mostly hypocritical western conception of "humanity" and "humanism"?Black guy from the future pasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136170325730022110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-67338025567554904192012-12-24T05:32:47.602-08:002012-12-24T05:32:47.602-08:00> François Poul-lain de la Barre declared that
...> François Poul-lain de la Barre declared that<br />> “L'esprit n'a point de sexe,” but of course sex<br />> and gender norms profoundly articulate who has<br />> or had a say in what is legibly apportioned<br />> to the sphere of "mind."<br /><br />Also, clearly M. de la Barre didn't know his<br />_Star Trek_ canon.<br /><br />"Metamorphosis"<br />Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967<br />http://www.chakoteya.net/startrek/31.htm<br />-----------------<br />COCHRANE: Captain, why did you build that translator<br />with a feminine voice?<br /><br />KIRK: We didn't.<br /><br />COCHRANE: But I heard. . .<br /><br />KIRK: The idea of male and female are universal constants,<br />Cochrane. There's no doubt about it. The Companion is female.<br /><br />COCHRANE: I don't understand.<br /><br />MCCOY: You don't? A blind man could see it with a cane.<br />You're not a pet. You're not a specimen kept in a cage.<br />You're a lover.<br /><br />COCHRANE: I'm a what? jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com