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Against Transhumanism: The Delusion of Technological Transcendence

[Let us begin the new year, you and I, with a long, but not longing, backward glance. In the Moot to a post yesterday my friend Jim Fehling...

Expanded and upgraded from the Moot : Most representative constitutional governments established in the aftermath of our own experiment ...

Background: Last month I spent a few weeks in correspondence with an interesting writer and occasional journalist who stumbled upon some ...

Longtime friend and friend-of-blog Jim Fehlinger posted a cogent summarizing judgment (which doesn't mean concluding by any means) of ...

Upgraded and adapted from the still-ongoing Moot . In response to robocultist (he affirms the designation, that isn't just name-calling...

The following is edited and adapted from the Moot to this post , an exchange with "Gareth Nelson" (his contributions are italici...

From the fetishism of commodities to the Culture Industry to the Spectacle to Big Data, being degraded into having, having degraded into def...

Ebola, terrorism, immigration, PC-police are all proxies. Republicans are scared to death and they are acting like it's the end of the w...

Encryption fixated politics seem to me regularly to expose a paranoid/aggressive project of cyborg-ruggedized selfhood, very closely akin to...

Chapter One Sins of Futurologists: Life expectancy at retirement age -- esp at lower end of the income distribution -- are not increasing a...

There is a crucial continuity in the errors and deceptions committed by transhumanist/singularitarian futurist sub(cult)ural projects. The ...

Interpretation, from interpretari , L, "to explain, to expound, to understand," and in turn from interpres, "agent, translat...

Star Trek is most dystopic in its depiction of casual attire and swimwear, envisioning a galaxy in which International Male not only did n...

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If cars are so "intelligent" now and are programmed to "avoid dangers," then why aren't they committing mass-suicide...

When someone declares themselves a "technologist" it is usually safest to assume they are bragging about using language and wearin...

Here is a link to a video of the (non-)debate that was the occasion for the following scattered sputterings on twitter late last night. The...

Slap another 2,500 bucks onto the already steep price-tag of Tesla Motors' Model S sedan and your luxury "smart car" will be ...