We ’re obsess with enhancing our bodies and tuning up our mastermind ; already , our pop music refinement is full of heroic , cyborg megamutants . But what does it all signify ? A seminar in Irvine , CA train to find out , by exploring “ biopolitics . ”
caution : I am a speaker at this seminar , so by nature I ’m reasonably excited about it . If you ’re in the Orange County , CA area on Friday , consider coming out to see guiding light like David Brin , Natasha Vita - More , Jess Nevins , and Jamais Cascio ( and me ! ) talk over transhumanism and “ The Biopolitics of Popular Culture . ” Organized by transhumanist braniacJames Hughes , the conference will address our biotech future as a meme in dada finish as well as scientific development . Here ’s a description from the syllabus :
Popular acculturation is full of figure of speech and cliches that mould our debates about emerging technologies . Our most transcendent expectation for engineering science come from pop cultivation , and the most common objections to emerging technologies follow from skill fiction and repugnance , from Frankenstein and Brave New World to Gattaca and the Terminator .
Why is it that almost every person in fiction who want to inhabit a longer than normal life is evil or pay some terrible price ? What does it say about attitude towards posthuman possibilities when mutants in Heroes or the X - Isle of Man , or cyborg in Battlestar Galactica or Iron Man , or vampires in True Blood or Twilight are draw as equal to of responsible citizenship ?
Is Hollywood reflect a transhuman turn in popular culture , facilitate us envisage a day when magical and muggle can be together in a peaceful Star Trek confederation ? Will the coming together of pop culture , societal networking and virtual reality into a heighten augmented world promote us all to make our lives a physical body of participative fiction ?
During this day long seminar we will engage with culture critics , creative person , writers , and filmmakers to research the biopolitics that are implicit in depictions of emerging engineering in lit , picture and television .
Here ’s afull list of speakers and a program .
Cost for the day is $ 150 , or $ 100 for student , and include lunch . For those who ca n’t make it , the issue will also be streaming livehere , and a complete video record of the seminar will be post online later .
Also , the locus for the conference is EON Reality , where engineers are research 3D projections and other nifty virtual reality / augmented reality technical school . There will be a demonstration !
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