Transhumanism and/as Whiteness

Proceedings

Ali, Syed Mustafa¹ 

关键词: transhumanism;    posthumanism;    whiteness;    ‘White Crisis’;    racism;    racialization;    algorithmics;    critical race theory;    decolonial thought;   

DOI  :  10.3390/IS4SI-2017-03985

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Transhumanism is interrogated from critical race theoretical and decolonial perspectives with a view to establishing its ‘algorithmic’ relationship to historical processes of race formation (or racialization) within Euro-American historical experience. Although the Transhumanist project is overdetermined vis-à-vis its raison-d’être, it is argued that a useful way of thinking about this project is in terms of its relationship to the shifting phenomenon of ‘whiteness’. It is suggested that Transhumanism constitutes a techno-scientific response to the phenomenon of ‘White Crisis’ at least partly prompted by ‘critical’ posthumanist contestation of Eurocentrically-universal humanism.

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