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Transhumanism is a futuristic philosophy which celebrates the potential of advanced technologies to augment human functioning to unprecedented degrees, ushering in a new phase of ‘posthuman’ evolution. Some transhumanists even regard digital technologies as capable of ‘reenchanting’ the world. Such visions of ‘cyberspace as sacred space’ conceal many valuejudgments, however, not least in the universalisation of a metaphysics of technoscience founded on longings for invulnerability, incorporeality and omniscience. Such propensities cloak ideologies of technocratic consumerism that refuse to engage with the global implications of new technologies. A theologicallyderived critique not only exposes the ideology of ‘transcendence’ at the heart of transhumanism, but also challenges its claim to represent a latterday Nietzschean sensibility.
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