The Promethean biohacker: on consumer biohacking as a labour of love

VM Lima, LA Pessoa, RW Belk - … and Biotechnologies in …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Just as the mythical Greek Titan Prometheus created humans and brought them the
technology of fire, the biohackers studied here seek to recreate humanity and bring us …

Remaking Human Nature: Transhumanism, Theology and Creatureliness in Bioethical Controversies

C Deane-Drummond - … and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of …, 2015 - torrossa.com
This chapter considers the intersection of transhumanism with heated debates in bioethics
through critical engagement with the work of Ted Peters, a prominent theologian who has …

Entangled agencies: New individual practices of human-technology hybridism through body hacking

BN Duarte - NanoEthics, 2014 - Springer
This essay develops its idiosyncrasy by concentrating primarily on the trend of body hacking.
The practitioners, self-defined as body hackers, self-made cyborgs or grinders, work in …

On posthumans, transhumanism and cyborgs: Towards a transhumanist-Christian conversation

H Campbell - Modern Believing, 2006 - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
Technology is increasingly viewed as a tool to overcome the limits of biology. Within our
technological society, there is a recognised push to create technologies that lengthen our …

Cooking for perfection: Transhumanism and the mysteries of kitchen mastery

M Berg, V Fors, J Eriksson - Confero: Essays on Education …, 2016 - confero.ep.liu.se
Martin Berg, Vaike Fors, and Jonnie Eriksson ow is such a mundane everyday activity as
cooking redesigned into biohacking through the concept of transhumanism, and how are …

Manufacturing Life, What Life? Ethical Debates Around Biobanks and Social Robots

N Vallès-Peris, V Argudo-Portal, M Domènech - NanoEthics, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we explore how the definition of life takes on an essential character in the
ethical debates around health technologies, with life thus being manufactured in the …

Knowing What to Wish For: Human Enhancement Technology, Dignity and Virtue.

S Vallor - Techne: Research in Philosophy & Technology, 2011 - pdcnet.org
Through an analysis of the appeals to human dignity used by bioconservatives to criticize
transhumanist proposals for aggressive development of human enhancement technologies …

[图书][B] Transhumanism as a new social movement: the Techno-Centred Imagination

JM MacFarlane - 2020 - Springer
Humanity is at a crossroads in its history, precariously poised between mastery and
extinction. The fast-developing array of human enhancement therapies and technologies …

Biohacking

AK Yetisen - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Biohacking is a do-it-yourself citizen science merging body modification with technology.
The motivations of biohackers include cybernetic exploration, personal data acquisition, and …

[图书][B] Transhumanism: Evolutionary futurism and the human technologies of utopia

A Pilsch - 2017 - books.google.com
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 …