Headline: Transhumanism

This chapter provides an overview of the transhumanist movement, its origins, its main figures and its main positions. It then highlights the fact that transhumanism shows little concern for environmental issues, as it is mostly focused on individual bodies, health and longevity. Finally, this chapter examines how transhumanists activists or related academics address contemporary ecological disasters, focusing on the human engineering hypothesis first, and then the “good Anthropocene” and its connections with some aspects of the debate on solar geoengineering.

Publication Year
2023
Publication Type
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Citation

Doat, D., & Dorthe, G. (2023). Transhumanism. In N. Wallenhorst, & C. Wulf (Eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans between Heritage and Future (pp. 695-699). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/9783031259104_113.

DOI
10.1007/9783031259104_113