I almost wanted to post this in General because it's so easy to turn these three articles and their comments sections into a proxy server or an Ozma equivalent discussing the core issues of the setting from very different perspectives. The last article in particular I'd love to put in the mouth of a conservative scanner or crow. In fact, I'm probably gonna strip the comment threads and articles of contemporary references and pepper EP setting spices in to taste (probably including an addendum of an autonomist proxy angrily critiquing the use of "anarcho" in "anarcho-ecologies" bc I am in tune with my inner political pedant) and see what kind of story arc I can weave out of it.
We May Look Crazy to Them, But They Look Like Zombies to Us: Transhumanism as a Political Challenge by Steve Fuller (the Ultimate position, get with it genetrash)
Politics as Zombie Warfare: Against Steve Fuller’s Transhumanism by David Roden (the comment thread on this one is great, S.C. Hickman's final -as of now- comment ends it so strong, this could have been a chat closer on an EP sourcebook sidebar tbh)
Anarcho-ecologies and the Problem of Transhumanism by R. Scott Bakker (the Jovian academe turned conservative crow)
Incidentally, as Roden has recently written the definitive book on thinking posthuman potentialities beyond human thinkability with Posthuman Life, I have a colony of exhumans called Roden's Death Rattle in my game.
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Scanners and Crows Peering and Cawing
Sat, 2015-09-19 16:53
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Scanners and Crows Peering and Cawing
Sun, 2015-09-20 02:17
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Very interesting articles,
Very interesting articles, thanks for sharing them. I agree that the comments on the second one are quite reminiscent of some of the sidebar conversations in the EP sourcebooks.
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