Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition - Brossura

Pearson, Keith Ansell

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ISBN 10: 0415154359 ISBN 13: 9780415154352

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

Nietzsche's vision of the 'overman' continues to haunt the postmodern imagination. His call that 'man is something that must be overcome' can no longer be seen as simple rhetoric. Our experiences of the hybrid realities of artificial life have made the 'transhuman' a figure that looks over us all. Inspired by this vision, Keith Ansell Pearson sets out to examine if evolution is 'out of control' and machines are taking over.
In a series of six fascinating perspectives, he links Nietzsche's thought with the issues at stake in contemporary conceptions of evolution from the biological to the technological. Viroid Life; Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition considers the hybrid, 'inhuman' character of our future with the aid of Nietzsche's philosophy. Keith Ansell Pearson contrasts Nietzsche and Darwin before introducing the more recent figures such as Giles Deleuze and Guy Debord to sketch a new thinking of technics and machines and stress the ambiguous character of our 'machine enslavement'.

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Are machines taking over? Is evolution out of control? Is there a future for the human condition? These questions are at the heart of this book. How can philosophy respond to the new age where what we create - machines and technology - has fundamental implications on what we are now, and what we are to become. The way we think needs new models and new maps to cope with these changes. This study brings together the tradition of continental thought with developments in science, technology and new work in exploratory biology. In a number of original and experimental pieces, Keith Ansell Pearson looks at technology and the transhuman condition; mapping inhuman futures and the construction of universal history; Nietzsche and the Darwin machine; entropy and evolution; and the undecidability of machinic enslavement.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415154359
• ISBN 13: 9780415154352
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216