Saturday, November 15, 2008

A Transhumanist Files a Complaint in the Hurt Feelings Department

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Upgraded and adapted from the Moot. My "Anonymous" HumanityPlusTronic interlocutor soldiers on (I suspect she or he is approachin...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

A Member of the HumanityPlusTron Caucus of the Reasonable Makes a Plea

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Upgraded and Adapted from the Moot , an Anonymous reader makes a comment and a request: Even though I would consider myself a "transhum...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Honoring Service, Because Freedom Isn't Free

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Veterans Day differs from Memorial Day in that it honors all veterans, living and dead, for their service to our country and to the ongoing ...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

The Question On All Sensible Lips

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Over at EuroTrib , the ever reasonable Jerome a Paris has a question: After years of deregulation, of promotion of greed and assertion of th...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Democracy, Consent, and Enterprise (and Their Contraries, Aristocracy, Duress, and Exploitation)

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Contrary to the abstract assurances of their ideologues, the systems we denominate as "capitalist" are not in fact direct emanatio...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Postmarxist Aesthetics and Politics

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Students in my Postmarxist Aesthetics and Politics course at Berkeley are hard at work on their take-home finals these days. They are answe...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Greg Egan on the Transhumanists

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Greg Egan is, in my estimation, among the greatest science fiction writers now living. He is also, together with Vernor Vinge (whose work I...
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Monday, April 21, 2008

From Neocon to Biocon

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Neocons trump up an apocalyptic "War on Terror" designed to enable incumbent interests to centralize control and loot resources --...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Moralizing Isn't Politics

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The polis is not a moral community. Politics isn't Morals. And moralizing isn't politics. Politics isn't organized by the dem...
Friday, April 18, 2008

My Exchange With Bioconservative John Howard Continues...

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Upgraded and Adapted from the Moot : John Howard: [A]llowing same-sex conception and approving of its development insults families where one...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Neither Nostalgia Nor Hype Is Progress

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Bioconservative John Howard offers up this characterization and critique of my technoscience politics in the Moot: OK, "deluded" i...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

From One Extreme to Another

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A commenter over at Pam's place seems to be implying I'm some sort of "closeted transhumanist" just because I don't w...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

"Post-Gender" or Gender Poets?

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Hearing so-called transhumanists calling gender a "disease" fills me with unease. After all, the transhumanists also like to say t...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Transhumanism Without Superlativity Is Nothing

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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...
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Monday, April 07, 2008

p2p Democratization

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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...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

The Retro-Futurist "Revolutionaries"

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