Virtual Immortality : God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism /

In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient to process information and too inept at crossing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krüger, Oliver
Otros Autores: Jones, Ali, Knight, Paul, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2021]
Colección:Cultures of society (Bielefeld, Germany) ; v. 41.
Temas:
Humanism.
Humanisme.
humanism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the English Edition
  • A Who is Who? of Post- and Transhumanism
  • 1. Virtuality, Media, and Immortality. An Introduction
  • Part I Humans and Media
  • 2. Virtuality
  • 2.1 Virtuality and Time
  • 2.2 Virtuality and Space
  • 2.3 Virtuality and Corporeality
  • 2.4 Virtuality, Reality, and the Imaginary
  • 3. Promethean Shame
  • 3.1 Human Beings and Technology in the Work of Günther Anders
  • 3.2 Virtuality and Death
  • Part II Technological Posthumanism
  • 4. Transhumanism
  • 4.1 Post- and Transhumanism
  • 4.2 Intellectual Predecessors and the Transhuman
  • 4.3 Early Transhumanism: Ettinger, FM-2030, Leary
  • 4.4 The Extropy Institute and the (Vita- )Mores
  • 4.5 The World Transhumanist Association / humanity+
  • 4.6 Other Actors and Institutions
  • 4.7 Religious and Spiritual Transhumanism
  • 4.8 Conclusion
  • 5. Technological Posthumanism
  • 5.1 The Posthuman and Posthumanism
  • 5.2 The Face of Posthumanism
  • Frank Tipler
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Hans Moravec
  • Ray Kurzweil
  • 5.3 Posthumanism and Art
  • 6. A History of Technological Posthumanism
  • 6.1 Writing the "History of the Future"
  • 6.2 How We Became Posthuman
  • L'Homme Machine
  • Simulation and Identity
  • The Cybernetic Paradigm
  • The Measure of Perfection: Work and Knowledge
  • 6.3 Annihilation or Infinite Progress
  • Death, Entropy, and the Annihilation of All Life
  • The Sacrifice of Humankind
  • Progress and Perfectibility
  • Evolution and the Emergence of Life
  • Frank Tipler's Physico-Theology
  • 6.4 Singularities
  • Cosmological Singularity and Black Holes
  • The Technological Singularity
  • The Law of Progress and the Endless Frontier
  • 6.5 Immortality
  • Posthuman and Immortal
  • From Longevity to Computer-Aided Immortalization
  • Immortality in Science Fiction
  • Cryonics and the Suspension of Death
  • Technological Immortality
  • 6.6 The Transcendental Superintelligence
  • Transcendence and the Superhuman
  • Mind, Genius, and Superintelligence
  • 6.7 Omega
  • The Cosmic Consciousness
  • Teilhard de Chardin, McLuhan, and the Noosphere
  • 7. Virtuality. Immortality in the Age of Digital Media
  • 7.1 Economy
  • 7.2 Control and Contingency
  • 7.3 Secular Progress and Christian Salvation History
  • 7.4 The End of the Affronts
  • Appendix
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • a) Literature
  • B) Movies, TV series, and documentaries
  • c) Videos (online)
  • Index of Names

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