tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post8079079695832862003..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: The Importance of Being LagomorphineDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-51554469120819856212009-07-16T06:46:12.365-07:002009-07-16T06:46:12.365-07:00nicely summarizes my own view
I doubt it. "...<i>nicely summarizes my own view</i><br /><br />I doubt it. "Transhumanism" as a discourse typically mobilizes a notion of "enhancement" that stealths all sorts of parochial prejudices as to "better" and "worse" lifeways, underdetermined by lethality, undersensitive to considerations of what is wanted and what is consented to, as though these were "neutral" "scientific" or "hygienic" matters, conferring objective already-agreed upon "advantages," always only enabling rather than also always disabling in respect to available ends, and all the while embedded in a reductive pseudo-"progressive" narrative of technical amplification presumably eventuating in the arrival of an idealized post-human "species" and "future" which solicits identification (at the cost of dis-identification with human plurality and the open futurity inhering in it in every present) figured as <i>homo superior</i>. <br /><br />Whatever haggling PR considerations or conflicting personal values lead individual transhumanists to qualify their "enhancement" discourse to accommodate civil libertarian or democratic or social justice intuitions the underlying contrary eugenicist thrust of the discourse is always making its play, whether subtly or gratuitously. <br /><br />Of course, this is the actual concern that preoccupies my exchange with Jason Moss here. Agreeing in a general way with a statement occurring at the tail end of an argument isn't the same thing as agreeing with the argument, and to the extent that it is the argument which produces the statement with which you claim agreement, agreement with the statement but not the argument is likely superficial at best. <br /><br />My experience with transhumanist-identified futurologists has taught me to be enormously leery of highly selective, rather superficial appropriations of ideas of mine in the service of their efforts to legitimize their reactionary crackpot robot cult (see: technoprogressive).Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-89009625148057004802009-07-16T02:26:19.824-07:002009-07-16T02:26:19.824-07:00Wow, a post of Dale that I agree with. Especially ...Wow, a post of Dale that I agree with. Especially "<i>unless the wanted lifeway represents a palpable threat of harm to others -- where "harm" is considerably more than some so-called violation of "dignity" or "nature" or "decorum" as indicated by the discomfort of a social or religious conservatives in the presence of a difference they have a distaste for.</i>, which nicely summarizes my own view.<br /><br />One exception: I love rabbits - they are soft, fluffy, cute, sweet and make wonderful companions. I don't think I would go as far as blowjobs though.Giulio Priscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13811681020661409028noreply@blogger.com