What does the future hold for human beings? Reflections on transhumanism
In line with the BCUL’s annual Cultural Events theme, the Unithèque collection managers have put together a selection of documents on transhumanism. This intellectual movement advocates the use of science and new technologies to enhance human physical and intellectual capacities and thus improve the human condition. But augmented man, widely represented in the science-fiction imagination, is also the subject of intense debate in the humanities and social sciences.
What will the man of the future look like? What ethical questions does the transhumanist perspective raise? If the science-fiction imagination has familiarized us with the idea of a connected humanity, equipped with prostheses enabling the development of hitherto limited capacities, how can the human and social sciences define the human in this new context? How do you draw the line between human and machine?
A selection of documents to discover at all times on Renouvaud and at Unithèque from September 17 to October1, 2019.
