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Glenn Rikowski Alien Life: Marx and the Future of the Human Introduction The ‘ huma n’ appea rs to be in crisis. There is a practical challenge to the constitution of humans. This challenge is diverse but comes from four main e ld s o f c o nt e m po r ar y s c i en c e: b io t e ch n o lo g y (especially genetic modication of human DNA); cybernetics, in particular, the connection of microchips to t he h um an br ain o r central nervo us system ; microchip technology, articial intelligence (AI) and robotics; and nanotechnology. 1 With this new science and technology, the ‘future of the human’ appears to become open to a world of possibilities. It seems to offer powerful techniques for gener ating artic ial – rather th an natura l – selection. Evolution is subsumed under ‘human’ control and possibilities for redesigning the species yield ‘transhuman’ or ‘posthuman’ futures. In this scenario, the technological redenition of what the ‘human’ is becomes reality. Designer humans, the downloading of consciousness into computers, bodies without organs and cyborgs (a range of human- computer fusions) are
Historical Materialism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2003
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