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The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it provides an anthropological analysis of the transhumanist technological imagination. It explores the visions and values that animate transhumanist initiatives in the contemporary United states, and it explores the various ways transhumanists seek to use science and technology to usher in an enhanced posthuman future. Second, the book uses the study of transhumanism as a way to introduce a new generation of students to the discipline of cultural anthropology. In classic anthropological fashion, it argues that transhumanism can be better understood by approaching it from a comparative perspective. It shows how transhumanist efforts to transform the future of our species speak to a longstanding set of concerns within the discipline of cultural anthropology.
Introduction: Thinking through Transhumanism -- Intro.1. A back to the future approach to transhumanism -- Intro. 2. Technology, the imagination, and the future -- Intro. 3. The anthropology of transhumanism -- Intro. 4. Overview of Chapters 24 -- Intro. 5. A note on methods -- Chapter 1: Is transhumanism a revitalization movement? -- Chapter 2: Ancestors and avatars: Immortality transformed -- Chapter 3: Happily ever after: Transhumanism and the hedonistic imperative -- Chapter 4: The social skin, the anti social skin, and the pursuit of morphological freedom -- Chapter 5: Decoding the self -- Chapter 6: Rethinking kinship systems -- Chapter 7: From original affluence to posthuman abundance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.