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OverviewAndrew Pilsch argues that transhumanism's utopian rhetoric actively imagines radical new futures for the species and its habitat. Pilsch situates contemporary transhumanism within the longer history of a rhetorical mode he calls ""evolutionary futurism"" that unifies diverse texts, philosophies, and theories of science and technology that anticipate a radical explosion in humanity's cognitive, physical, and cultural potentialities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew PilschPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517901028ISBN 10: 1517901022 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 August 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. An Inner Transhumanism: Modernism and Cognitive Evolution 2. Astounding Transhumanism! Evolutionary Supermen and the Golden Age of Science Fiction 3. Toward Omega: Hedonism, Suffering, and the Evolutionary Vanguard 4. Transhuman Aesthetics: The New, the Lived, and the Cute Conclusion: Acceleration and Evolutionary Futurist Utopian Practice Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsI know of no other work that provides such a detailed and penetrating analysis of a cultural trend--transhumanism--that promises, like it or not, to be of increasing importance in the near future. --Jeff Pruchnic, author of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition Pilsch's book offers a positive outlook of the posthumanist ethos and a nuanced consideration of transhumanism, contributing an important and lucid analysis of the movement's evolution and a theoretical engagement with transhumanism's rhetoric that will prove fascinating to anyone thinking about technology and the human limit. -Project Muse I know of no other work that provides such a detailed and penetrating analysis of a cultural trend-transhumanism-that promises, like it or not, to be of increasing importance in the near future. -Jeff Pruchnic, author of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition Author InformationAndrew Pilsch is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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