#1089 Alexander Thomas: The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Alexander Thomas. He's a senior lecturer in media production and film at the University of East London, and today we're talking about his book, The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism. techno-human revol evolution and advanced capitalism.
So Dr. Thomas, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Thanks very much for the invite Ricardo. It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you. So let's start perhaps with a big of with a bit of background here also for the people who are listening and watching us who are not familiar with the topic of transhumanism. So what is transhumanism? And I know that it is very associated with different kinds of technology.
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