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Techno-progressivism or tech-progressivismextropian jargon in 1999 as the removal of "all political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization".[4]
Stance
Techno-progressivism maintains that accounts of
progress in science and technology to support and implement these values.[3][self-published source?
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Strong techno-progressive positions include support for the
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During the November 2014
transhumanist organizations signed the Technoprogressive Declaration. The Declaration stated the values of technoprogressivism.[6]
Contrasting stance
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pets, and, most prominently, rejection of the genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification of human beings to overcome what are broadly perceived as current human biological and cultural limitations.[2][3][self-published source?
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Bioconservatives range in political perspective from
Although techno-progressivism is the stance which contrasts with bioconservatism in the
biopolitical spectrum, both techno-progressivism and bioconservatism, in their more moderate expressions, share an opposition to unsafe, unfair, undemocratic forms of technological development, and both recognize that such developmental modes can facilitate unacceptable recklessness and exploitation, exacerbate injustice and incubate dangerous social discontent.[2][3][self-published source?
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List of notable techno-progressive social critics
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- Technocritic Dale Carrico with his accounts of techno-progressivism[3]
- Philosopher cyborg theory.[11]
- Media theorist open source.[12]
- Cultural critic cyberculture.[13]
- Science journalist Chris Mooney with his account of the U.S. Republican Party's "war on science".[14]
- Futurist Bruce Sterling with his Viridian design movement.[15]
- Futurist Alex Steffen and his accounts of bright green environmentalism through the Worldchanging blog.[16]
- Science journalist Annalee Newitz with her accounts of the Biopunk.[17][18]
- Bioethicist democratic transhumanism.[19]
Controversy
transhumanists" are using the term to describe themselves, with the consequence of possibly misleading the public regarding their actual cultural, social and political views, which may or may not be compatible with critical techno-progressivism.[21][self-published source?
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See also
- Algocracy
- Body modification
- Bioethics
- Biopolitics
- Digital freedom
- Free software movement
- Frontierism
- Fordism
- High modernism
- Manifest Destiny
- New Frontier
- Post-scarcity economy
- Scientism
- Technocentrism
- Technological progress
- Techno-utopianism
- Transhumanist politics
- Progress
References
- ^ Leijten, Jos (January 2019). "Science, technology and innovation diplomacy: a way forward for Europe. Institute for European Studies Policy Brief Issue 2019/15". www.ies.be. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d Carrico, Dale (2004). "The Trouble with "Transhumanism": Part Two". Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ a b c d e f Carrico, Dale (2005). "Technoprogressivism Beyond Technophilia and Technophobia". Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ Sikora, Tomasz (2003). The Cultural Dimension of Waste: a Critique of the Ethos of Technology. Economic and Environmental Studies. p. 103-112.
- ^ Carrico, Dale (2006). "The Politics of Morphological Freedom". Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ "Technoprogressive Declaration - Transvision 2014, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies". Archived from the original on 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
- ISBN 0865717044, 464 pp.
- ^ Mander, Jerry (1991). In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, California.
- ^ Rifkin, Jeremy (1998). The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, New York.
- ^ Shiva, Vandana (2000). Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- ^ Haraway, Donna (1991). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ ""Open Source Reality": Douglas Rushkoff Examines the Effects of Open Source | EDUCAUSE". Educause.edu. 2008-07-01. Archived from the original on 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ISBN 0-8223-1540-8.
- ISBN 0-465-04676-2.
- ^ Sterling, Bruce (2001). "Viridian: The Manifesto of January 3, 2000". Retrieved 2007-01-28.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ISBN 0-8109-3095-1.
- ^ Newitz, Annalee (2001). "Biopunk". Archived from the original on 2002-12-20. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Newitz, Annalee (2002). "Genome Liberation". Archived from the original on 2006-07-06. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ISBN 0-8133-4198-1.
- ^ Jose (2006). "Dale Carrico on Technoprogressive Politics". Archived from the original on 2007-12-25. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ^ Carrico, Dale (2008). ""Technoprogressive": What's In A Name?". Retrieved 2008-04-16.