Practical Transhumanism: Life at the Grassroots of Human Augmentation- [electronic resource]
Practical Transhumanism: Life at the Grassroots of Human Augmentation- [electronic resource]
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101242
- ISBN
- 9798379762216
- DDC
- 200
- 서명/저자
- Practical Transhumanism: Life at the Grassroots of Human Augmentation - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Indiana University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(195 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Sideris, Lisa;Sullivan, Winnifred.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation is an extensive ethnographic study of extra-institutional cybernetics and the first full length study of the grinder subgenre of biohacking and transhumanism. This dissertation greatly expands the scope of scholarship on transhumanism, the philosophy of using technology to surpass the limits of the human condition. This expanded understanding of transhumanism includes grassroots, community-based science, and self-experimentation. This punk or practical transhumanism turns toward the care of the earth and the exploration of human capabilities, such as using magnetic implants to expand the human sensorium. Practical transhumanism provides an alternative developmental trajectory to technocratic and philosophical transhumanisms favored by those intent on escaping the earth and mortality. My work brings together religious studies, media studies, American studies, gender studies and queer theory, disability studies, critical theory, South and East Asian studies, the social study of science and religion, and the anthropology of science and religion. My research methods are mixed, grounded in participant-observation ethnography, combined with the sociology of religion, critical science studies, and rhetorical analysis. In my studies of grassroots transhumanism, I have conducted more than five years of ethnographic data collection in person and online. This dissertation addresses two primary misconceptions about transhumanism, misconceptions that go well beyond Religious Studies and Theology. First, transhumanism is not just an otherworldly pursuit. My research shows an earthy, sensual transhumanism which treats death as more than an enemy. And second, this dissertation clears the way for a new history of transhumanism oriented away from white supremacist and eugenicist elites. This new history centers distributed grassroots networks, typically low-resourced, queer, disabled, and using extra-institutional science to pursue both survival and new ways of life.
- 일반주제명
- Religion.
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology.
- 일반주제명
- LGBTQ studies.
- 키워드
- Augmentation
- 키워드
- Cyborg
- 키워드
- Disability
- 키워드
- Ethnography
- 키워드
- Punk
- 키워드
- Transhumanism
- 기타저자
- Indiana University Religious Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■506 ▼aThis item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
■520 ▼aThis dissertation is an extensive ethnographic study of extra-institutional cybernetics and the first full length study of the grinder subgenre of biohacking and transhumanism. This dissertation greatly expands the scope of scholarship on transhumanism, the philosophy of using technology to surpass the limits of the human condition. This expanded understanding of transhumanism includes grassroots, community-based science, and self-experimentation. This punk or practical transhumanism turns toward the care of the earth and the exploration of human capabilities, such as using magnetic implants to expand the human sensorium. Practical transhumanism provides an alternative developmental trajectory to technocratic and philosophical transhumanisms favored by those intent on escaping the earth and mortality. My work brings together religious studies, media studies, American studies, gender studies and queer theory, disability studies, critical theory, South and East Asian studies, the social study of science and religion, and the anthropology of science and religion. My research methods are mixed, grounded in participant-observation ethnography, combined with the sociology of religion, critical science studies, and rhetorical analysis. In my studies of grassroots transhumanism, I have conducted more than five years of ethnographic data collection in person and online. This dissertation addresses two primary misconceptions about transhumanism, misconceptions that go well beyond Religious Studies and Theology. First, transhumanism is not just an otherworldly pursuit. My research shows an earthy, sensual transhumanism which treats death as more than an enemy. And second, this dissertation clears the way for a new history of transhumanism oriented away from white supremacist and eugenicist elites. This new history centers distributed grassroots networks, typically low-resourced, queer, disabled, and using extra-institutional science to pursue both survival and new ways of life.
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■653 ▼aDisability
■653 ▼aEthnography
■653 ▼aPunk
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