DARPA needs no special introduction: it is the tip of the technological spear of the American military-industrial complex. Although it is at the forefront of the bioinformatics revolution, the research …
The dream of transhumanism is a nightmare!
… Historian David Channel sees the current phase of our culture as the merging of two distinct ideals of the Western world regarding the order of the organic world (“the …
New materials (new relations with the world…)
We know that although many will consider the following sophisticated, those who better not read it are the wannabe “scientists” of antisocial media. A very recent techno-scientific achievement can make …
Smart skin
It has all the makings to move the hipsters: printing electronic circuits directly on the skin. Tattoo parlors will acquire an electronics section, and the human body will finally fulfill …
Citius, Altius, Fortius… every day, all day… (health as continuous upgrading)
The invasion of hygiene over the past decades has been sweeping, encountering minimal resistance and making its appearance even under the guise of an alternativism that often indulges in hygienic …
Even greater convenience
This is the next step, it’s here, and it’s good to know. Because it has arguments in its favor; and the assets to become fashionable. In sweden, several thousand citizens …
singularity: technological fetishism and political economy in the 21st century
The concept of the “singularity” refers to the moment when technological evolution will result in producing an artificial super-intelligence, which will bring about unimaginable changes in human civilization. Some futurologists, …
Death is inevitable (for cyborgs and humans)
4 February 2018, Austin, Texas, final day of the annual BDYXAX summit (Human Augmentation, Transhumanism, and Biohacking conference). A canonical rendezvous for biohacking believers and advocates of “post-humanism.” On stage …
Terminator and Blade Runner: building cyborgs and humans
Making Cyborgs, Making Humans – Of terminators and blade runners by Forest Pyle is a chapter from the book The Cybercultures Reader (2000, Routledge editions), and we have included its …
Unchain my heart, baby let me go!
Pacemaker: a small medical device implanted under the skin (or, if it’s the latest model, inside the heart) in a cardiac patient, whose mission is to send rhythmic electrical signals …
struggle for the rights of cyborgs? It exists, it exists…
In March 2013, the annual Emerge conference took place at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on the future that technological development holds for humanity. That year’s conference title was “the …
DIYbio: self-improvement in the 21st century
One would assume that biohackers are a marginal cosmopolitan phenomenon, some “geeks” here and there. Indeed, numerically speaking, biohackers may be few in number, for now. Ideologically, however, biohacking indicates …