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Title: What is Anarcho-Transhumanism? Author: William Gillis Date: 2012/01/06 Language: en Topics: anarcho-transhumanism, technology, science Source: Retrieved on February 19th, 2016 from https://humaniterations.net/2012/01/06/what-is-anarcho-transhumanism/ Notes: William Gillis and their writing can be found here or at https://humaniterations.net/.
Anarcho-Transhumanism is the recognition that social liberty is
inherently bound up with material liberty, and that freedom is
ultimately a matter of expanding our capacity and opportunities to
engage with the world around us. It is the realization that our
resistance against those social forces that would subjugate and limit us
is but part of a spectrum of efforts to expand human agency—to
facilitate our inquiry and creativity.
This means not just being free from the arbitrary limitations our bodies
might impose, but free to shape the world around us and deepen the
potential of our connections to one another through it.
It means the tools we use should be openly knowable and infinitely
customizable; it means bodies that are not locked into processes in
which we have no say. It knows that the hunger for choice behind birth
control, regrown limbs and sexual reassignment is the same hunger that
organizes workers and sets fire to prisons. It is struggle to live free.
. . and do so for one more year, one more decade, one more century. It
means not just transcending the strictures of gender, but of genetics
and all previous human experience. It means fighting to be allowed the
fullest actualization of who and what we want to be, whenever we want to
be it.
It means challenging and altering the conditions that might otherwise
govern us. It means when the tools exist to better our lives they should
be used; that no one should starve when such scarcity can be eliminated.
It means vigilantly engaging with nature rather than bullying or
surrendering to it. It is the knowledge that victory for the working
class will only truly arrive when every worker individually owns the
means of production—capable of fabricating anything and everything for
themselves. It is proactive engagement with the environmental conditions
that force hierarchy and inescapable collectivism. It means freeing our
society from the hierarchies of two dimensional landscapes, to move our
destructive infrastructures outside the biosphere and to eventually
shake off sedentary civilization and take our place as hunter-gatherers
between the stars.
It means cryptography—unbreakable channels of private communication
added up into an unbreakable hive of ideas and knowledge. It also means
the abolition of public privacy—the creation of a world where the
actions we take with one another are shareable and verifiable in an
instant. And ultimately it will be the freedom to surpass the limited
bandwidth of language and connect more and more directly to one
another—to merge minds and transcend individual subjectivities as
desired.
Anarcho-Transhumanism is all of these things and any one of them.