Transhumanist politics constitutes a group of political ideologies
that generally express the belief in improving human individuals
through science and technology.The term "transhumanism" with its
present meaning was popularised by Julian Huxley's 1957 essay of that
name.Natasha Vita-More was elected as a Councilperson for the 28th
Senatorial District of Los Angeles in 1992. She ran with the Green
Party, but on a personal platform of "transhumanism". She quit after a
year, saying her party was "too neurotically geared toward
environmentalism".James Hughes identifies the "neoliberal" Extropy
Institute, founded by philosopher Max More and developed in the 1990s,
as the first organized advocates for transhumanism. And he identifies
the late-1990s formation of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA),
a European organization which later was renamed to Humanity+ (H+), as
partly a reaction to the free market perspective of the "Extropians".
Per Hughes, "[t]he WTA included both social democrats and neoliberals
around a liberal democratic definition of transhumanism, codified in
the Transhumanist Declaration." Hughes has also detailed the political
currents in transhumanism, particularly the shift around 2009 from
socialist transhumanism to libertarian and anarcho-capitalist
transhumanism. He claims that the left was pushed out of the World
Transhumanist Association Board of Directors, and that libertarians
and Singularitarians have secured a hegemony in the transhumanism
community with help from Peter Thiel, but Hughes remains optimistic
about a techno-progressive future.
that generally express the belief in improving human individuals
through science and technology.The term "transhumanism" with its
present meaning was popularised by Julian Huxley's 1957 essay of that
name.Natasha Vita-More was elected as a Councilperson for the 28th
Senatorial District of Los Angeles in 1992. She ran with the Green
Party, but on a personal platform of "transhumanism". She quit after a
year, saying her party was "too neurotically geared toward
environmentalism".James Hughes identifies the "neoliberal" Extropy
Institute, founded by philosopher Max More and developed in the 1990s,
as the first organized advocates for transhumanism. And he identifies
the late-1990s formation of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA),
a European organization which later was renamed to Humanity+ (H+), as
partly a reaction to the free market perspective of the "Extropians".
Per Hughes, "[t]he WTA included both social democrats and neoliberals
around a liberal democratic definition of transhumanism, codified in
the Transhumanist Declaration." Hughes has also detailed the political
currents in transhumanism, particularly the shift around 2009 from
socialist transhumanism to libertarian and anarcho-capitalist
transhumanism. He claims that the left was pushed out of the World
Transhumanist Association Board of Directors, and that libertarians
and Singularitarians have secured a hegemony in the transhumanism
community with help from Peter Thiel, but Hughes remains optimistic
about a techno-progressive future.
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