Cooking for perfection

ow is such a mundane everyday activity as cooking redesigned into biohacking through the concept of transhumanism, and how are foodstuffs of different sorts framed in ways that allow them to become part of such a ”biohack design”? This article will elaborate on these questions and thereby contribute to understandings of contemporary practices of biohacking through the lens of transhumanism. As we describe below, biohacking is a diverse and emergent movement that pulls people together in the joint enterprise of investigating the boundaries of what people can do on their own to learn more about their bodies. Intrinsic to this movement is the transhumanist idea that the human potential can develop beyond what we today acknowledge as bodily boundaries. Thus, transhumanist philosophies lend themselves well to deeper understandings of these phenomena. As Max More states in the introduction to his edited book “The Transhumanist Reader”, human nature as we know it, is emergent and merely one point on an evolutionary pathway that we can learn to re-shape in ways that we deem desirable using new technologies and ideas.