What is anarcho-transhumanist?
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Exactly 😅
I found this, but haven't read it yet
I think I read that space themed journal that is linked there a while ago and found it ok.
But personally I am getting the juck at the term "transhumanism" as its roots go all the way back into the eugenics movement.
Maybe its naivity of some people using the term, but I have also seen ancaps trying to use it as an entry vector for their shitty ideas.
Yeah that is the most worrying part I think. But I am trying to learn more of it's own merits.
The politics surrounding the distribution of means to the individual/ smaller unit and defense of the individual/ smaller unit in the overcoming of physical limitations, it is somewhat in opposition to notions like the occasional christian notion of non-editing of the perfect body, which is a culture which seeks to create collective mental hegemony around the notion that we are perfect immutable creatures, with limits that should be respected and not overcome by human action. In that context transhumanism is the disrespect of that notion, and the usage of available means to overcome existing limitations and escape hegemonic cultures of "natural" limitations.
Thanks for the short explanation, that makes sense.
It is also connected to nikolai fyodorovs philosophy of the common task: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism
Not so much reading (unless you turn the subtitles on), but the Xbox 360/PS3 era video game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. All Deus Ex covers transhumanism: it's about a society in which people replace organic body parts for mechanical or technological parts. Much like Cyberpunk 2077, which does almost everything DXHR does but better, but DXHR really gets into the philosophy of altering your body, and also the philosophy of refusing to do so. And wouldn't ya know it, the company making the "augmentations" also sells the drug that, if you don't take it regularly, your body rejects the implants, and this is by design? (But not your character because he was made by the company, so he doesn't need the drug.)
Not sure if that fits the bill or not. It is more entertainment than educational, if it is that at all.
I don't really follow a lot of politics either, so I'm not 100% sure or confident in the definitions of these things.