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Remaining human in a transhumanist world

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Bugajska A.

Teologia i Moralność

2022

vol. 17

issue 1(31)

61-72

Biorąc pod uwagę, że transhumanistyczna wizja świata jest często przedstawiana jako pożądana dla ludzi i optymistycznie utopijna, celem artykułu jest zbadanie jednej z takich wizji, wyobrażonej przez Scotta Westerfelda w duologii Succession, aby sprawdzić, czy taki utopijny model nie zagraża przetrwaniu ludzkości. Unikając zwykłych, stricte dystopijnych i alarmistycznych scenariuszy, postmortalny i ekstropijny świat Westerfelda jest pełen wyzwań dla transhumanistycznych idei i pobudza do refleksji nad rzeczywistymi podstawami, na których miałaby się opierać przyszła komunikacja i współpraca, oraz nad granicami ulepszeń, których nie należy przekraczać, by uniknąć dehumanizacji.

Given that the transhumanist vision of the world is frequently painted as desirable for people and optimistically utopian, the article’s aim is to investigate one of such visions, imagined by Scott Westerfeld in The Succession duology to see if such a utopian model accounts for the necessity of the survival of humanity. While avoiding the usual strictly dystopian and alarmist scenarios, Westerfeld’s postmortal and extropian world is rife with challenges to the transhumanist ideas, asking about the actual grounds on which future communication and cooperation would be based, and the limits of enhancement that need to be drawn not to lead to dehumanization.

Tomorrow’s Kin: Intergenerational Solidarity after The Genome

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Bugajska A.

Literatura Ludowa

2018

vol. 62

issue 3

One of the issues that emerges with regard to radical human enhancement is the destruction of the intergenerational connections. It is variously envisioned in science fiction, and we can speak of many possible plateaus on which the human continuity, which entails solidarity, can be contested. Contemporary young adult dystopias, such as Shusterman’s Unwind Dystology (2007-15) and The Arc of a Scythe (2016-) cycles, Beckett’s Genesis (2010), Patterson’s Maximum Ride (2005-15) or Wells’s Partials (2009-14), very often conjoin the intergenerational issues typical of juvenile fiction with bioethical concerns in the posthuman and transhuman world. I look at the speculative futures of intergenerational solidarity from the point of view of the biological continuity, the subjective continuity and postgenerationality in an immortal society. In the majority of cases it may be observed how the child-adultdichotomy, with the superimposed adult normativity prejudice, threatens the coexistence of trans- and posthumans with their “parents,” leading to the redefinition of altruism in the wake of the homicidal ALife apocalypse. The relatively broad spectrum of the cases and perspectives I have selected yields a fairly comprehensive picture of contemporary projections of intergenerational solidarity “after the genome” (Herrick 2013).

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Tomorrow’s Kin: Intergenerational Solidarity after The Genome