Visions of technological transcendence: human enhancement and the rhetoric of the future

Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press (2017)
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Examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs distinctly mythic functions. They cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

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