Cosmos-politanism: transhumanist visions of global order from the first world war to the digital age

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• What: The authors explore some of the most prominent political visions articulated by transhumanists, focusing in particular on their accounts of global order. In the first section the authors focus on two polymathic scientists-J.B.S. Haldane and J.D. Bernal- in interwar Britain. The authors discuss how the dominant liberal variants of transhumanism are divided between a libertarian ("extropian") rejection of state sovereignty, and an alternative that advocates global technology governance through a fusion of state and market regulation . Through tracing the development of transhumanist ideas across the twentieth and early twenty-first century, the . . .
  

   

  

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