Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideology
Abstract We understand Singularism, a stream of transhumanist thought, to be an ideology associated with Silicon Valley and the political right-wing (Hughes 2002). Taking this as our object of study, the present article conducts an anthropological discussion around the concepts of culture, ideology,...
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| description | Abstract We understand Singularism, a stream of transhumanist thought, to be an ideology associated with Silicon Valley and the political right-wing (Hughes 2002). Taking this as our object of study, the present article conducts an anthropological discussion around the concepts of culture, ideology, and cosmology as proposed by Eric Wolf (1999). Cosmology provides a basis for ideology so as to offer elements for criteria such as truth and the inevitability of a given project for power. We point out how cybernetics works as a cosmology for Singularism and we explore political and philosophical differences between exponents of Singularism, which -- to a large extent - express different appropriations of cybernetics in their construction of the concept of Singularity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-22a3e1f8ed684e2eadbfa9c6071fc6212025-08-20T02:09:28ZengAssociação Brasileira de AntropologiaVibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology1809-43412024-10-012110.1590/1809-43412024v21d501Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideologyRafael Evangelistahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5446-5792Vitor Chiodihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-9495Abstract We understand Singularism, a stream of transhumanist thought, to be an ideology associated with Silicon Valley and the political right-wing (Hughes 2002). Taking this as our object of study, the present article conducts an anthropological discussion around the concepts of culture, ideology, and cosmology as proposed by Eric Wolf (1999). Cosmology provides a basis for ideology so as to offer elements for criteria such as truth and the inevitability of a given project for power. We point out how cybernetics works as a cosmology for Singularism and we explore political and philosophical differences between exponents of Singularism, which -- to a large extent - express different appropriations of cybernetics in their construction of the concept of Singularity.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412024000100501&lng=en&tlng=enCyberneticsCybercultureCosmologyIdeologySingularitySilicon Valley. |
| spellingShingle | Rafael Evangelista Vitor Chiodi Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideology Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology Cybernetics Cyberculture Cosmology Ideology Singularity Silicon Valley. |
| title | Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideology |
| title_full | Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideology |
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| title_short | Singularity and the dispute for a transhumanist ideology |
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| topic | Cybernetics Cyberculture Cosmology Ideology Singularity Silicon Valley. |
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