Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2489343 |
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| Authors | R Evangelista (0000-0001-5446-5792, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), corresponding author), Vitor Chiodi (0000-0002-9583-9495, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/1809-43412024v21d501 |
| OpenAlex | W4403606739 |
| SciELO | S1809-43412024000100501 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
We understand Singularism, a stream of transhumanist thought, to be an ideology associated with Silicon Valley and the political right-wing (Hughes 2002). Taking this as our object of study, the present article conducts an anthropological discussion around the concepts of culture, ideology, and cosmology as proposed by Eric Wolf (1999). Cosmology provides a basis for ideology so as to offer elements for criteria such as truth and the inevitability of a given project for power. We point out how cybernetics works as a cosmology for Singularism and we explore political and philosophical differences between exponents of Singularism, which -- to a large extent - express different appropriations of cybernetics in their construction of the concept of Singularity
Epistemology · Geometry · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Singularity · Law · Mathematics · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Highly cited | No |
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