‘Nietzsche Gets a Modem’: Transhumanism and the Technological Sublime
Transhumanism is a futuristic philosophy which celebrates the potential of advanced technologies to augment human functioning to unprecedented degrees, ushering in a new phase of ‘posthuman’ evolution. Some trans‐humanists even regard digital technologies as capable of ‘re‐enchanting’ the world. Suc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2002
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Literature and theology
Year: 2002, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-80 |
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| Summary: | Transhumanism is a futuristic philosophy which celebrates the potential of advanced technologies to augment human functioning to unprecedented degrees, ushering in a new phase of ‘posthuman’ evolution. Some trans‐humanists even regard digital technologies as capable of ‘re‐enchanting’ the world. Such visions of ‘cyberspace as sacred space’ conceal many value‐judgments, however, not least in the universalisation of a metaphysics of technoscience founded on longings for invulnerability, incorporeality and omniscience. Such propensities cloak ideologies of technocratic consumerism that refuse to engage with the global implications of new technologies. A theologically‐derived critique not only exposes the ideology of ‘transcendence’ at the heart of transhumanism, but also challenges its claim to represent a latter‐day Nietzschean sensibility. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/16.1.65 |