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  1. Reimagining Daoist Alchemy, Decolonizing Transhumanism
    The Fantasy of Immortality Cultivation in Twenty-First Century China
    Autor*in: Ni, Zhange
    Erschienen: [2020]

    This article studies a new fantasy subgenre that emerged in contemporary China, xiuzhen xiaoshuo (immortality cultivation fiction), which builds imaginary worlds around the magical practice of Chinese alchemy and fuses it with science and technology.... mehr

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    Index theologicus der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen
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    This article studies a new fantasy subgenre that emerged in contemporary China, xiuzhen xiaoshuo (immortality cultivation fiction), which builds imaginary worlds around the magical practice of Chinese alchemy and fuses it with science and technology. After the arrival of the modern, Western triad of science, religion, and magic/superstition, alchemical practices of the Daoist tradition were labeled as a “superstition” to be eradicated; however, they persisted and began to flourish within and beyond the realm of fantasy literature in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Immortality cultivation fiction has generated a magical form of transhumanism, which envisions human enhancement through techniques beyond the boundaries of “proper” science and “legitimate” religion. While transhumanism in the Euro-American West is popular among white bourgeoisie males and dominated by tendencies to reaffirm the human subject constructed by excluding the various subhuman others, magical transhumanism in Chinese fantasy explores the possibility of transcending that antagonistic relationship and making a posthuman subject and a utopian world.

     
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    Übergeordneter Titel: Enthalten in: Zygon; [London] : Open Library of Humanities$s2024-, 1966; 55(2020), 3, Seite 748-771; Online-Ressource

    Schlagworte: Chinese alchemy; fantasy; magic/superstition; secularization; transhumanism
  2. Existential Hope and Existential Despair in Ai Apocalypticism and Transhumanism
    Autor*in: Singler, Beth
    Erschienen: [2019]

    Drawing on observations from on- and offline fieldwork among transhumanists and artificial superintelligence/singularity-focused groups, this article will explore an anthropology of anxiety around the hoped for, or feared, posthuman future. It will... mehr

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    Drawing on observations from on- and offline fieldwork among transhumanists and artificial superintelligence/singularity-focused groups, this article will explore an anthropology of anxiety around the hoped for, or feared, posthuman future. It will lay out some of the varieties of existential hope and existential despair found in these discussions about predicted events such as the "end of the world" and place them within an anthropological theoretical framework. Two examples will be considered. First, the optimism observed at a transhumanist event will be examined to emphasize the positive affective aspects of certain apocalypse scenarios, especially those with an implicit eschatological direction. Second, an online location where examples of existential despair can be noted will be explored further to demonstrate the kinds of negative responses to certain superintelligence/singularity ideas. These examples of existential hope and despair will demonstrate the intrinsic role of anxiety in ideas about a future artificial intelligence apocalypse.

     
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    Übergeordneter Titel: Enthalten in: Zygon; [London] : Open Library of Humanities$s2024-, 1966; 54(2019), 1, Seite 156-176; Online-Ressource

    Schlagworte: apocalypse; artificial intelligence; transhumanism
  3. "White Crisis" and/as "Existential Risk," or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence
    Autor*in: Ali, Mustafa
    Erschienen: [2019]

    In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race-religion nexus.... mehr

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    In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race-religion nexus. Building on earlier work, I explore the phenomenon of existential risk associated with Apocalyptic AI in relation to "White Crisis," a modern racial phenomenon with premodern religious origins. Adopting a critical race theoretical and decolonial perspective, I argue that all three phenomena are entangled and they should be understood as a strategy, albeit perhaps merely rhetorical, for maintaining white hegemony under nonwhite contestation. I further suggest that this claim can be shown to be supported by the disclosure of continuity through change in the long-durée entanglement of race and religion associated with the establishment, maintenance, expansion, and refinement of the modern/colonial world system if and when such phenomena are understood as iterative shifts in a programmatic trajectory of domination which might usefully be framed as "algorithmic racism."

     
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    Übergeordneter Titel: Enthalten in: Zygon; [London] : Open Library of Humanities$s2024-, 1966; 54(2019), 1, Seite 207-224; Online-Ressource

    Schlagworte: Apocalyptic AI; White Crisis; algorithmic racism; apocalypticism; existential risk; posthumanism; race; religion; transhumanism; whiteness