Virtual Immortality – God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism

Oliver Krüger

doi:10.14361/9783839450598

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-5059-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-5059-8
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Kulturen der Gesellschaft
Volume: 41
Language: English
Pages: 356
Product type: Book Titles

FrontmatterPages 1 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
ContentsPages 5 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
Foreword to the English Edition No access Pages 11 - 14
A Who is Who? of Post- and Transhumanism No access Pages 15 - 18
1. Virtuality, Media, and Immortality. An Introduction No access Pages 19 - 26
Introduction No access Pages 29 - 31
2.1 Virtuality and Time No access Pages 31 - 37
2.2 Virtuality and Space No access Pages 37 - 40
2.3 Virtuality and Corporeality No access Pages 40 - 43
2.4 Virtuality, Reality, and the Imaginary No access Pages 43 - 50
3.1 Human Beings and Technology in the Work of Günther Anders No access Pages 51 - 55
3.2 Virtuality and Death No access Pages 55 - 58
4.1 Post- and Transhumanism No access Pages 61 - 62
4.2 Intellectual Predecessors and the Transhuman No access Pages 62 - 68
4.3 Early Transhumanism: Ettinger, FM-2030, Leary No access Pages 68 - 75
4.4 The Extropy Institute and the (Vita-)Mores No access Pages 75 - 78
4.5 The World Transhumanist Association / humanity+ No access Pages 78 - 82
4.6 Other Actors and Institutions No access Pages 82 - 87
4.7 Religious and Spiritual Transhumanism No access Pages 87 - 89
4.8 Conclusion No access Pages 89 - 90
Introduction No access Pages 91 - 92
5.1 The Posthuman and Posthumanism No access Pages 92 - 95
5.2 The Face of Posthumanism No access Pages 95 - 105
5.3 Posthumanism and Art No access Pages 105 - 114
6.1 Writing the "History of the Future" No access Pages 115 - 118
6.2 How We Became Posthuman No access Pages 118 - 158
6.3 Annihilation or Infinite Progress No access Pages 158 - 197
6.4 Singularities No access Pages 197 - 218
6.5 Immortality No access Pages 218 - 260
6.6 The Transcendental Superintelligence No access Pages 260 - 276
6.7 Omega No access Pages 276 - 290
Introduction No access Pages 291 - 292
7.1 Economy No access Pages 292 - 296
7.2 Control and Contingency No access Pages 297 - 301
7.3 Secular Progress and Christian Salvation History No access Pages 301 - 310
7.4 The End of the Affronts No access Pages 310 - 314
List of Abbreviations No access Pages 317 - 318
Bibliography No access Pages 319 - 347
Index of Names No access Pages 348 - 356