Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia

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Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as "the most dangerous idea in the world" by Francis Fukuyama. In this b

Andrew Pilsch is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University.

"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 "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