The institutionalization of transhumanist thought. Proposals and reviews

Abstract

Since its beginning, technoscientific transhumanism had an ambiguous relationship with politics, being able to adapt to a multitude of different and even opposing ideologies on the basis of common principles and objectives. This did not prevented it from becoming institutionalized in recent decades, with organizations and movements emerging within its orbit with their own proposals such as biohacking and the political parties identified as transhumanist. In this sense, the main criticisms it has focused on the socio-political issues implied by its project (both those of the general objectives it proposes as well as those of the specific institutions in which it has materialized), showing it as a thought with predominance of ideas circumscribed to technological solutionism and individualism. Finally, it is contrasted with the proposals derived from the cyborg theory under the presumption that they demonstrate a model and socio-political conceptualization of our technological development as an alternative to transhumanism constituting a more politically relevant proposal, for which it will mainly attend to the objectives that they promote and the issues they prioritize.