Sunday, April 25, 2010

Fundy Futurism As Infomercial Fraud

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Here's the tale-end of a comment of mine adapted from the Moot I don't mind spotlighting for added emphasis: I personally think fu...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

This Week's White Guys of "The Future" Report

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I made my weekly sojourn to the stealth-Robot Cult outfit IEET's website to discover, once again, that out of fourteen portraits of tod...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

White Guys Forever Report

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Perhaps this should be a regular feature? Given my ongoing exchange with apparently white guy transhumanist "Mitchell" about how c...
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Thinking Big in the Robot Cult

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More "Mitchell" from the Moot: I understood your thinking to be: some things are possible and desirable; other things just aren...
Friday, April 16, 2010

More Mitchell on White Guys in Robot Cults and Why Wanting Not to Die and Wanting to Be Superrich in "The Future" Is Somehow a Worldview

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"Mitchell" soldiers on Robotically and Cultically in the Moot: Your thesis, remember, is that transhumanism is a sort of folk reli...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

White Guys Forever!

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I went over to the stealth-Robot Cult transhumanist "techno-ethics" outfit IEET website to see what silliness might be preoccupyi...
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Varieties of Futurological Discourse

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There are continuities but also important differences between mainstream corporate-militarist futurological discourses (among them neolibera...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Animal Rites, Vegetarian Criticism, Brutal Theory

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Scratch a Vegetarian, Find a Cyborg. Animal Rites: Vegetarian Criticism, Vegetarian Selves , posted March 7, 2006, but adapted from a pap...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Futurological Caucasian Cock on Parade

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Awfully white, IEET guys. Not totally, but quite shockingly, flabbergastingly, overabundantly, weirdly white and male and Anglo-European. ...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Animal "Uplift"

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In an essay entitled Moral Universalism Vs. Relativism transhumanist James Hughes refers to a discussion in which we had both been involved...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Follow the Bouncing Ball

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The stealthy techno-immortalists at the Methuselah Foundation (Get it? Methuselah?) are a non-profit medical charity dedicated to extendi...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Peer

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A peer is not an equal -- for there are no equals -- the peer is the one who appears in the public square, and by virtue of the public squa...

A Trilogy of Futurological Brickbats on the Subject of "Techno-Ethics"

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The prefix "bio," when appended to the word "ethics," tends to have the curious effect of draining all the life out of e...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Implausible Characters, Vacuous Foundations

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In my UC Berkeley course "Altars and Alters to the Market: Polemical Discourse in the Neoliberal/Neoconservative Epoch" we just sp...
Monday, February 01, 2010

Dispatches from Libertopia: An Anthology of Wingnut Chestnuts and Democratizing Remedies

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I. Wherever government is meant to be of by and for the people, to be anti-government always means to be against the people. II. Whenever...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

California Ideologist Stewart Brand Coughs Up the Usual "Heretical" Hairball of Futurological Conventional Wisdom

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I read an article attributing to futurologist Steward Brand "heretical" views that were presumably shocking given that Brand is an...

Stewart Brand, King of Pop Futurology (Part One of Three)

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At least one journalist seemed to find "shocking" and "heretical" the following absolutely conventional futurological c...

Surveying Stewart Brand's Greenback-Green Futurological Litany (Part Two of Three)

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Want to Start at the Beginning? Stewart Brand told a 400-strong audience… [First:] There was “no hope” of mitigating against climate change...
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