Main description:

This book surveys the distinctions that underlie the unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications posed by a transhuman world. Humanness is in flux as human bodies are being hacked and altered in their quest for super wellness, super intelligence and super longevity. Now is the time to discuss how best to think about dealing with bodies that have been hacked to exceed natural physical limits or more technically, species typical functioning. Enter the advent of transhumanism to take uncertainty by the horns. According to transhumanists, death is unnecessary and medical conventions undermine the possibility to radically evolve. To biohackers, there is no need to wait to explore the risks that conventional medicine dares not. This book is of interest to anyone interested in tapping into this growing movement of modifying the human body as it is right now.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.- Transhuman, Posthuman and Complex Humanness in the 21st Century.- Chapter 3. Pragmatisim and Transhumanism.- Chapter 4. Transhumanism as Nihilistic, Positive Pessimism.- Chapter 5. Overcoming (our) Nature: Transhumanism and the Redefinition of Human beings' Essence.- Chapter 6. Beyond Disintegration: Transhumanism and Enactivism.- Chapter 7. Mens Humana in Corpore Humano - Body-hacking the Human Experience.- Chapter 8. The Transhuman in the Workplace: Maximising Autonomy and Avoiding the Tyranny of Optimisation.- Chapter 9. Embodiment Diffracted: Queering and Cripping Morphological Freedom.- Chapter 10. Transhumanism - Agency Enhancement.- Chapter 11. Evolving the Natural-born Cyborg.- Chapter 12. Posthuman Ethics: The Priority of Ethical Over Ontological Status.- Chapter 13. Can Transhumanism be Post-Sexist?.- Chapter 14. Ectogenesis and the Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies for Space Exploration.