Como ser Pós-Humano na Rede: os Discursos da Transcendência nos Manifestos Ciberculturais

This article aims to analyze the rhetoric characteristic of many post humanists’ manifestos available on the internet. We hypothesize that these discourses of technological exaltation rest on the idea of human transcendence by means of contemporary technoscience. A careful analysis discloses these d...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Felinto, Erick, de Carvalho, Mauro Schulz
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2005
Country:Brasil
Institution:Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação
Repository:E-Compós
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.e-compos.org.br:article/37
Online Access:https://www.e-compos.org.br/e-compos/article/view/37
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cibercultura
Transcendência
Imaginário Tecnológico
Manifestos
Pós-Humanismo
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Summary:This article aims to analyze the rhetoric characteristic of many post humanists’ manifestos available on the internet. We hypothesize that these discourses of technological exaltation rest on the idea of human transcendence by means of contemporary technoscience. A careful analysis discloses these discourses as naïve expressions of an utopist imagination that lacks critical assessments regarding its conceptions about the technological phenomenon.