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Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
On technology, transhumanism, and progress.
James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips.
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What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL?
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Why is it wrong to worry about future transhumanism when we need to grapple with the technologies of now?
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What are the limits of bourgeois futurism? What is an alternative futurism?
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Has AI changed everything? Will it?
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Are we actually living in an age of rapid technological advance?
Links:
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Conspiracy Theories, Left Futurism, and the Attack on TESCREAL, James Hughes & Eli Sennesh
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/446/ The Techno-Fantasy of Perfect Freedom ft. Amber Trotter
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The Obama-to-Yarvin Pipeline, Geoff Schullenberger, Compact Substack
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