Towards Political Transhumanism: Body Modification
Cyborgification is a special concern for transhumanists. Basically, if you want to transcend your current physical status, a lot of the possible upgrades involve removing parts of your body that are inadequate or failing, and replacing them with new parts, or adding new parts on, which involves a lot of what is called elective and semi-elective surgery. What I want to look at is how various kinds of body mods are treated right this second, in order to evaluate what striving towards bodily autonomy could possibly mean right now.
I am going to talk about the availability of these things but I am also going to talk a fair amount about the legalities of performing body modifications on yourself or another person because they are of limited availability. Since there are a few transhumanists who have already taken some of the first steps, I’m obviously going to talk a hell of a lot about them and how the world has reacted to them. This will include some discussion of “normal” prosthetics and their mainstream acceptance. (1189 words)
Lepht Anonym! It is very inspirational!
J has a finger magnet, I ultimately wimped out because my body tries to create an AT field when breached and the fucking government wouldn’t let me get proper medical-grade anti-AT-field-procedures.
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