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(2019) Transhumanism - Engineering the human condition, Dordrecht, Springer.
And here we are, at the real Transhumanism; this strange hybrid movement that expressly wants to retrace the footsteps of the builders of the famous biblical tower, with the awareness that, this time, there won't be anyone to confuse the languages. Considered by some an ideology or a philosophy, by others a kind of faith, by others still a mixture of theories waiting for scientific validation or denial, this movement – precisely because of its interdisciplinarity and the way in which it mixes political agendas and theoretical speculations – is still difficult to define. Wikipedia considers Transhumanism "an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology." Not bad, as a program, but then, neither were the forerunners kidding.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04958-4_2
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Manzocco, R. (2019). A new tower of babel, in Transhumanism - Engineering the human condition, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 32-84.
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