Our Posthuman Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Posthuman Future write by Francis Fukuyama. This book was released on 2017-06-15. Our Posthuman Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion years ago, or the emergence of mankind 10 million years ago, people will be able to choose their children's' sex, height, colour, personality traits and intelligence. It will even be possible to create 'superhumans' by mixing human genes with those of other animals for extra strength or longevity. But is this desirable? What are the moral and political consequences? Will it mean anything to talk about 'human nature' any more? Is this the end of human beings? Our Posthuman Future is a passionate analysis of the greatest political and moral problem ever to face the human race.
Our Posthuman Future
Our Posthuman Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Posthuman Future write by Francis Fukuyama. This book was released on 2003-05. Our Posthuman Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A social philosopher examines how the foundation of liberal democracy, which is the belief that all human beings are equal by nature, could be shattered by the biotechnology revolution.
Posthuman Life
Posthuman Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthuman Life write by David Roden. This book was released on 2014-10-10. Posthuman Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Whoever is right, it is assumed that our technological successor will be an upgraded or degraded version of us: Human 2.0. Posthuman Life argues that the enhancement debate projects a human face onto an empty screen. We do not know what will happen and, not being posthuman, cannot anticipate how posthumans will assess the world. If a posthuman future will not necessarily be informed by our kind of subjectivity or morality the limits of our current knowledge must inform any ethical or political assessment of that future. Posthuman Life develops a critical metaphysics of posthuman succession and argues that only a truly speculative posthumanism can support an ethics that meets the challenge of the transformative potential of technology.
After the Neocons
After the Neocons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Neocons write by Francis Fukuyama. This book was released on 2007. After the Neocons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critique and reformulation of US foreign policy from one of the world's leading thinkers - who formerly regarded himself as a neocon.
The Posthuman
The Posthuman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Posthuman write by Rosi Braidotti. This book was released on 2013-07-11. The Posthuman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human. The Posthuman starts by exploring the extent to which a post-humanist move displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subject. Rather than perceiving this situation as a loss of cognitive and moral self-mastery, Braidotti argues that the posthuman helps us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities. Braidotti then analyzes the escalating effects of post-anthropocentric thought, which encompass not only other species, but also the sustainability of our planet as a whole. Because contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all that lives, they result in hybridization, erasing categorical distinctions between the human and other species, seeds, plants, animals and bacteria. These dislocations induced by globalized cultures and economies enable a critique of anthropocentrism, but how reliable are they as indicators of a sustainable future? The Posthuman concludes by considering the implications of these shifts for the institutional practice of the humanities. Braidotti outlines new forms of cosmopolitan neo-humanism that emerge from the spectrum of post-colonial and race studies, as well as gender analysis and environmentalism. The challenge of the posthuman condition consists in seizing the opportunities for new social bonding and community building, while pursuing sustainability and empowerment.
