Visions of Technological Transcendence
| Author | : James A. Herrick |
| Publisher | : Parlor Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2017-03-03 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781602358775 |
| ISBN-13 | : 160235877X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (77X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Visions of Technological Transcendence by : James A. Herrick
Download or read book Visions of Technological Transcendence written by James A. Herrick and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.