James A. Herrick

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Visions of Technological Transcendence (eBook, PDF)

Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future

Beschreibung

This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

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Autor

James A. Herrick (PhD University of Wisconsin, MA University of California-Davis, is the Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is the author of The Making of the New Spirituality, Scientific Mythologies, The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists, Argumentation and The History and Theory of Rhetoric, and co-editor of After the Genome: A Language for our Biotechnological Future. Herrick writes and speaks about the history of rhetoric, new religious movements, and popular narratives about science and technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Parlor Press, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781602358775
• Artikelnr.: 56059688