Enhancement Utopien
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Body Utopianism
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Author : Franziska Bork Petersen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-07-04
Body Utopianism written by Franziska Bork Petersen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-04 with History categories.
This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. It is the first comprehensive study to address the paradoxical relationship between bodies and utopianism. Franziska Bork Petersen discusses doping, bodybuilding and cosmetic surgery alongside practices such as retouching the ‘body as image’ on social media, and looks at how fashion modelling and performance ‘estrange’ the body. Techniques and technologies to transform our bodies are increasingly accessible and suggest an excessive identification of the body as lacking. To ‘be a body’ in a culturally meaningful way, we incessantly improve our bodily appearance and capacity. The book therefore addresses the utopianism inherent in a cultural understanding of bodies as increasingly controllable.
Automation And Utopia
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Author : John Danaher
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Automation And Utopia written by John Danaher and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Philosophy categories.
Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future, but John Danaher argues that this can be a good thing. A world without work may be a kind of utopia, free of the misery of the job and full of opportunities for creativity and exploration. If we play our cards right, automation could be the path to idealized forms of human flourishing.
Perfecting Human Futures
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Author : J. Benjamin Hurlbut
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-22
Perfecting Human Futures written by J. Benjamin Hurlbut and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-22 with Philosophy categories.
Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is thrown into question by emerging technologies that promise radical control over human life and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary volume assembles scholars of science and technology studies, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and history to examine imaginations of technological progress that promises to transcend the constraints of human body and being. Attending in particular to transhumanist and posthumanist visions, the volume breaks new ground by exploring their utopian and eschatological dimensions and situating them within a broader context of ideas, institutions, and practices of innovation. The volume invites specialists and general readers to explore the stakes of contemporary imaginations of technological innovation as a source of progress, a force of social and historical transformation, and as the defining essence of human life.
Enhancement Utopien
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Author : Sascha Dickel
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Enhancement Utopien written by Sascha Dickel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biochemical engineering categories.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Utopian And Dystopian Literatures
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Author : Peter Marks
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-03-15
The Palgrave Handbook Of Utopian And Dystopian Literatures written by Peter Marks and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.
Utopian Thinking In Law Politics Architecture And Technology
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Author : van Klink, Bart
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Utopian Thinking In Law Politics Architecture And Technology written by van Klink, Bart and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Law categories.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book explores the role of utopian thinking in law and politics, including alternative forms of social engineering, such as technology and architecture. Building on Levitas’ Utopia as Method, the topic of utopia is addressed within the book from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Utopian Drama
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Author : Siân Adiseshiah
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-06
Utopian Drama written by Siân Adiseshiah and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an illuminating appraisal of the objectives of utopianism as manifested in drama through the ages, and carefully ascertains the added value that live performance brings to the persuasion of utopian thought. Siân Adiseshiah scrutinises the distinctive intervention of utopian drama through its examination alongside the utopian prose tradition – in this way, the book establishes new ways of approaching utopian aesthetics and new ways of interpreting utopian drama. This book provides fresh understandings of the generic features of utopian plays, identifies the gains of establishing a new genre, and ascertains ways in which this genre functions as political theatre. Referring to over 40 plays, of which 18 are examined in detail, Utopian Drama traces the emergence of the utopian play in the Western tradition from ancient Greek Comedy to experimental contemporary work. Works discussed in detail include plays by Aristophanes, Margaret Cavendish, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Brenton, Claire MacDonald, Cesi Davidson, and Mojisola Adebayo. As well as offering extended attention to the work of these playwrights, the book reflects on the development of utopian drama through history, notes the persistent features, tropes, and conventions of utopian plays, and considers the implications of their registration for both theatre studies and utopian studies.
Opening Digital Fabrication Transforming Techknowledgies
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Author : Schneider, Christoph
language : en
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Opening Digital Fabrication Transforming Techknowledgies written by Schneider, Christoph and has been published by KIT Scientific Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with categories.
Hermeneutics History And Technology
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Author : Armin Grunwald
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-01
Hermeneutics History And Technology written by Armin Grunwald and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with History categories.
For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. And when one asks about the world in 20 or 100 years, answers typically revolve around AI, genome editing, or geoengineering. There is great demand to speculate about the future of work, the future of mobility, Industry 4.0, and Humanity 2.0. The humanities and social sciences, science studies, and technology assessment respond to this demand but need to seek out a responsible way of taking the future into account. This collection of papers, interviews, debates grew out of disagreements about technological futures, speculative ethics, plausible scenarios, anticipatory governance, and proactionary and precautionary approaches. It proposes Hermeneutic Technology Assessment as a way of understanding ourselves through our ways of envisioning the future. At the same time, a hermeneutic understanding of technological projects and prototypes allows for normative assessments of their promises. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers, STS scholars, social theorists, and philosophers of history, and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.
Utopien In Utopiefernen Zeiten
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Author : Emanuel Herold
language : de
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Release Date : 2020-07-27
Utopien In Utopiefernen Zeiten written by Emanuel Herold and has been published by Wallstein Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Zeiten von Dauerkrise und Untergangslust: Wie ist eine wünschenswerte Zukunft überhaupt noch vorstellbar? Ob beim Thema Demokratie, Digitalisierung oder Klimawandel: Verfolgt man öffentliche Debatten, scheinen die Vorzeichen auf Katastrophe zu stehen. Die Omnipräsenz dystopischer und postapokalyptischer Narrative ist Ausdruck eines nervösen Zeitgeistes. Unsere Zeit sei keine für Utopien, meinen auch die Sozialwissenschaften. Vor diesem Hintergrund legt Emanuel Herold ein unzeitgemäßes Plädoyer vor: für die Wiederentdeckung der Tradition der literarischen Utopie. Sein Buch rekonstruiert zunächst anhand wirkmächtiger theoretischer Texte die blinden Flecken der deutschen Utopiekritik. Vergleichende Fallstudien zeigen dann die Wandelbarkeit literarischer Utopien vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Texte von William Morris, Marge Piercy oder Kim Stanley Robinson versuchen stets, den Krisen ihrer Zeit ein Wissen um Möglichkeiten abzuringen, wobei sie ihre Darstellungsformen kritisch reflektieren. In einer Gesellschaft, die den Glauben an unaufhaltsamen Fortschritt hinter sich gelassen hat, erlaubt die Auseinandersetzung mit der Utopietradition, darüber nachzudenken, wie wir uns in der Zeit neu verorten können - ohne passiv an Zukunftsverlust zu leiden oder uns nach falschen Vergangenheiten zu sehnen.