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Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future

Name: Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future
ISBN: 9781602358782

By
- James A. Herrick
Publisher
- Parlor Press, LLC

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Series: 1 of 2
Language: English
Format
Category: Non-Fiction

This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

Release date

Ebook: 3 March 2017