Ali, Syed Mustafa
(2017).
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| URL: | http://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/1/3/244 |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.3390/IS4SI-2017-03985 |
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2017 The Authors |
| Keywords: | transhumanism; posthumanism; whiteness; ‘White Crisis’; racism; racialization; algorithmics; critical race theory; decolonial thought |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Item ID: | 50351 |
| Depositing User: | Mustafa Ali |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2017 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2017 12:55 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/50351 |
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