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Richard comments in the Moot: "Frankly, I wonder what will be left of transhumanism when you take away the technological determinism, b...

Friend of Blog Martin comments in the Moot: [E]ve[n] if it is merely an ideal, the actual "capitalist" system that you critique on...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot -- h/t Seth. Most of the parochial visions of "the future" after which superlative technocentri...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot. I'm not a computer scientist, a molecular chemist, a roboticist, a gerontologist, or what have you. ...

Some highlights, if that's the word, from my latest exchange in the Moot with Mormon Transhumanist Lincoln Cannon: Dale, you continue to...

In a post yesterday I described peer-to-peer democratization as one of my chief personal and scholarly interests. I wrote: I think of as p...

Open futurity arises out of present practices of collaboration and contestation, while "the future" is a racket parochially owned ...

Professionally, I suppose, my most legible area of research is in science and technology studies, especially technocultural and technoethica...

I maintain that Superlative Technology Discourses tend to disdain actually progressive engagement in technodevelopmental social struggle for...

I'm not a "post-modernist." Anybody who knows the history of serial quarelles des anciens et modernes since the 17C -- let a...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot Of transhumanism and singularitarianism and the other branches of techno-utopian Robot Cultism I've b...

Reader FrF in the Moot directed my attention to an editorial I would not otherwise have read, from the Superlative Techno-Immortalist (and ...

Over in the Moot, reader "Smartypants" distinguishes "sustained critiques of transhumanism versus sustained critiques of tran...