There and Back Again: Transhumanist Evangelism in Science Fiction and Popular Science
Popular science and science-fiction depictions of immortality through uploading minds are "authenticfakes": secular practices that do authentic religious workfor transhumanist communities. Although in the 1 980s sciencefiction departedfrom this practice and rejected transhuman promises of...
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Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2011]
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Implicit religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-172 |
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Evangelistic work
B Arthur C. Clarke B Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom B Cory Doctorow B STROSS, Charles B DOCTOROW, Gory B Julian Huxley B Robert Ettinger B Charles Stross B Religion B JBS Haldane B FM-2030 B Secular Humanism B IMMORTALITY of the soul B Science Fiction B ACCELERANDO (Book) B Transhumanism B Cyberpunk B Max More B Extropianism B Accelerando B DOWN & out in the Magic Kingdom (Book) B Apocalyptic Al |
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