Transhumanism as a new social movement : the techno-centred imagination /
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| Author / Creator: | MacFarlane, James Michael. |
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| Imprint: | Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( 245 p..) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors. |
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12554935 |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge? -- 1.1 Background for Study -- 1.2 Motivations/Key Contributions -- 1.2.1 Motivations -- 1.2.2 Key Contributions -- 1.3 Overview of Thesis -- References -- Chapter 2: Moving Beyond Humanism: A Review of Literature -- 2.1 Self-Identity, Framing and Narrative in 'New' Social Movement Theory -- 2.1.1 'New' Social Movement Theory: A Post-War Paradigmatic Shift Towards Identity -- 2.1.2 'New' Social Movement Analysis: Framing, Narrative and the ARRR Model -- Framing Theory/Narrative Analysis | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The ARRR Classification Scheme of Social Movement Objectives -- 2.2 Contested Transhumanisms: Internal Versus External Histories -- 2.2.1 Prelude: 'Proto-transhumanists' and Etymology of the Term Transhumanism -- 2.2.2 From Evolutionary View to Philosophical Position: The Formalisation of Transhumanist-Extropianism in the 1990s -- 2.3 Mobilisations: Techno-Utopian Collective Action Frames? -- 2.3.1 Early Transhumanist Organisations in the Twenty-First Century: 1998-2008 -- 2.3.2 Party Politicisation of Transhumanism: 2014-Present | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.3.3 Technologised Collective Action Frames and Science as a Social Movement -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Methods and Methodology -- 3.1 Conceptual Framework: Imagining the 'Unsited Field' -- 3.1.1 'Doing' Multi-sited Ethnographically Inspired Work -- 3.1.2 Selections: Choosing Sites and Subjects -- 3.2 Research Practice: Moving Between Sites and Subjects -- 3.2.1 Overview of Fieldwork Activities -- 3.2.2 Interventions -- 3.3 Processing Data: Crafting an Analytic Narrative -- 3.3.1 Principles of Analysis -- 3.3.2 Method of Analysis -- 3.4 Conclusions -- References | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 4: Constituents -- 4.1 Demographics: The Presentation of Self in Offline/Online Spaces -- 4.1.1 The Range of Constituents: Observed -- 4.1.2 The Range: Self-Described -- 4.2 Memetic Travel and Standards: Networked Propagation of an Idea (l)...... -- 4.2.1 Memetic Travel -- 4.2.2 Standards -- 4.3 Affinity: Boundaries, Inclusivity and Social Integration -- 4.3.1 Boundaries -- 4.3.2 Inclusivity -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Mobilisations -- 5.1 TELOS: Modelling the 'Objectivisation' of Human Enhancement -- 5.1.1 Networked Advocate Taxonomy of THE | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5.2 IN POTENTIA: The Possibilities Inscribed Within Technology -- 5.2.1 The Three S's -- Super-Intelligence -- Super-Longevity -- Super-Wellbeing -- 5.3 VIA: Travelling Through, En Route -- 5.3.1 Continuity Versus Cessation -- 5.3.2 Milestones -- 5.4 TECHNE: The Artful 'Craft' of Transhumanism -- 5.4.1 The Importance of Public Image -- 5.4.2 THEA as Techno-Humanistic Narrative-Building -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Politics -- 6.1 ATROPHY: The Disintegration and Inertia of Contemporary Politics -- 6.1.1 Inadequacy of Party Politics -- 6.1.2 Relevance of Party Politics? | |
| 500 | |a 6.2 ACTIVISM: Tensions Between Virtual and Embodied Politicking | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Transhumanism. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2018002094 | |
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