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epistemic humility vs. “the engineer’s disease”

This post is prompted in part by a post by Cennydd Bowles, in which he riff on Nathan Ballantyne’s notion of epistemic trespass. Reading it reminded me of a term I’ve seen frequently, most often on MetaFilter, where it has been part of the lexiconic furniture for some time. An ask-the-hive-mind entry on that site…

January 5, 2022

a defiant assertion of the individual against its own impermanence

Doug Rushkoff knows the score: Ironically, transhumanism is less about embracing the future than fixing the human experience as it is today. Medical and life extension interventions seek only to preserve the person who is alive right now. Cryonics seeks to freeze the human form in its current state in order to be reanimated in…

July 18, 2020

Cyborg dialectics / a perpetual state of transition

Dresden Codak. Started following his original webcomic way way back in the Noughties, when it was just as much of a one-person labour of love as it is now (though the artwork has gone from good to astonishing over the years). Back then DC (and I, for my sins) were fellow-travellers of transhumanism; DC is,…

May 14, 2018

How does the rabbit end up in the hat? (Or: what transhumanism doesn’t want you to know about infrastructure)

Talk delivered at the Munich Volkstheater on 14th October 2017 for Bayerischer Rundfunk’s annual Zundfunk-Netkongress.

November 3, 2017

Tag: posthumanism

epistemic humility vs. “the engineer’s disease”

a defiant assertion of the individual against its own impermanence

Cyborg dialectics / a perpetual state of transition

How does the rabbit end up in the hat? (Or: what transhumanism doesn’t want you to know about infrastructure)