Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia

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Andrew 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.

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