Whose techno-utopia? Power, privilege, and the religio-secular frameworks of the contemporary biohacking movement
Committed to providing a form of this-worldly salvation to its largely white, male, and wealthy practitioners, biohacking is a popular “citizen science” movement that applies a life-hacking mentality to the intimate spaces of the body by embracing DIY biology. Exploring the contours of its power and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Religion compass
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Issue: 11/12 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Biohacking
/ Protestantism
/ Secularism
/ Utopia
/ Power
/ History 2007-2022
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
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| Summary: | Committed to providing a form of this-worldly salvation to its largely white, male, and wealthy practitioners, biohacking is a popular “citizen science” movement that applies a life-hacking mentality to the intimate spaces of the body by embracing DIY biology. Exploring the contours of its power and privilege in the United States today, this essay works to historicize the contemporary biohacking movement by attending to discourses produced by some of its key personalities, its depictions in popular media, and to the growing body of academic scholarship that seeks to theorize biohacking's logics and rhetorics. After first constructing a basic genealogy and typology of the movement, this essay then considers the religio-secular frameworks that shape biohacking's unique form of techno-utopia. In particular, it examines what kind of future individuals are being promised in a world where they are invited to become superhuman, if they have the time and resources to pursue immortality. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12451 |