In the Transhumanist Anthropocene, the human has become a project to be perfected.
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In the Transhumanist Anthropocene, the human has become a project to be perfected.
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The Anthropocene has always been about what humans do to Earth.
Now this is different:
The direction of human action and the effects on human inhabitants are changing. Human action is turning toward human biology and cognition.
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Paul Schütze (@paulschuetze.bsky.social) and Michael Latzer have just published a paper characterising the "Transhumanist Anthropocene".
What happens when Transhumanism collides with the Anthropocene? What versions of the future might this leave us with?
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The Transhumanist Anthropocene:
The moment human action turned from Earth's systems toward human biology.
The paper is Open Access:
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Degrowth and ecocentrism are becoming structurally unimaginable.
The Transhumanist Anthropocene locks the imagination onto technological solutions or eventually leaving the planet. This reflects the institutional grip of venture capital, big tech, and AI.
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The transhumanist faith in technology has critical implications on the climate. If superintelligence or geoengineering will solve the problem, the transformations required now become less pressing. This logic can already be found in the IPCC's own mitigation pathways.
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"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.
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🌍 The Anthropocene is changing!
New paper where we introduce the "Transhumanist Anthropocene”. Human action is now turning not just to Earth's systems, but to the biological and cognitive constitution of the human itself.
More to come in the next days. To the paper 👇
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