Book contents
- Transhumanism
- New Departures in Anthropology
- Transhumanism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Is Transhumanism a Revitalization Movement?
- Two Ancestors and Avatars
- Three Happily Ever After
- Four The Social Skin, the Antisocial Skin, and the Pursuit of Morphological Freedom
- Five Decoding the Self
- Six Rethinking Kinship Systems
- Seven From Original Affluence to Posthuman Abundance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Back to the Future: Reflections on a Discipline and a Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2020
Book contents
- Transhumanism
- New Departures in Anthropology
- Transhumanism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Is Transhumanism a Revitalization Movement?
- Two Ancestors and Avatars
- Three Happily Ever After
- Four The Social Skin, the Antisocial Skin, and the Pursuit of Morphological Freedom
- Five Decoding the Self
- Six Rethinking Kinship Systems
- Seven From Original Affluence to Posthuman Abundance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The concluding chapter provides some reflections on the values, visions and tensions that animate the transhumanist movement and technological imagination in the United States. It discusses the merits of approaching transhumanism from a comparative perspective and putting transhumanism in conversation with some classic disciplinary concerns. It considers what a posthuman future might mean for the discipline of cultural anthropology.
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- TranshumanismFrom Ancestors to Avatars, pp. 217 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020