Book contents
- Transhumanism
- New Departures in Anthropology
- Transhumanism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Is Transhumanism a Revitalization Movement?
- Two Ancestors and Avatars
- Three Happily Ever After
- Four The Social Skin, the Antisocial Skin, and the Pursuit of Morphological Freedom
- Five Decoding the Self
- Six Rethinking Kinship Systems
- Seven From Original Affluence to Posthuman Abundance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Thinking through Transhumanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2020
Book contents
- Transhumanism
- New Departures in Anthropology
- Transhumanism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Is Transhumanism a Revitalization Movement?
- Two Ancestors and Avatars
- Three Happily Ever After
- Four The Social Skin, the Antisocial Skin, and the Pursuit of Morphological Freedom
- Five Decoding the Self
- Six Rethinking Kinship Systems
- Seven From Original Affluence to Posthuman Abundance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The introductory chapter provides a brief overview of transhumanism and argues that transhumanism can be better understood by approaching it from a comparative perspective and putting it in conversation with longstanding concerns within the discipline of cultural anthropology. It discusses how the book speaks to existing anthropological research on technology, the future, the technological imagination and transhumanism. It also provides a brief overview of the chapters and discusses the research methods I used.
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- TranshumanismFrom Ancestors to Avatars, pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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