Video Games and the Transhuman Inclination

Geraci, Robert M.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01292.x

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“…DeLashmutt 2006a; Coeckelbergh 2010; Tamatea 2010; Geraci 2010). In the last issue of 2012, four substantial articles address “transhumanism,” for example ideas about human lives being so transformed by technology as to allow for a lifespan of up to a thousand years (Tirosh‐Samuelson 2012; Geraci 2012; Hughes 2012; Cole‐Turner 2012).…”

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TECHNO‐SECULARITY AND TECHNO‐SAPIENS: EDITORIAL FOR ZYGON'S FIRST REAL VIRTUAL ISSUE

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2013

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“…Throughout much of my work, I have described the integration of apocalyptic perspectives into scientific and technological work, producing dreams of godlike machines and human immortality through mind uploading (Geraci 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014). An apocalyptic perspective, characterized by four key elements, drives the soteriological visions described by the roboticist Hans Moravec (1988, 1999), the AI innovator Ray Kurzweil (1999, 2005), and others who echo them.…”

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A Hydra‐logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology

Geraci¹

2020

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Scholarship has grown increasingly nuanced in its grappling with the intersections of religion, science, and technology but requires a new paradigm. Contemporary approaches to specific technologies reveal a wide variety of perspectives but remain too often committed to typological classification. To be vigilant of our obligation to understand and reveal, scholars in the study of religion, science, and technology can adopt a hydra-logical stance: we can recognize that there are cultural monsters possessing scientific, technological, and religious heads. These heads may work with a common agenda or they might not. They might disagree, pulling their shared body back and forth in a public commotion that lays waste to their surroundings. They might see past one another or move in tandempurposively or not. Evaluations of climate response and AI benefit from seeing how the various heads are inseparable: indeed, cutting one off simply promotes the growth of new heads. Methodological and analytical clarity, therefore, emerges in the transition from schemes of classification to the recognition of hydras.

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“…Los videojuegos y los mundos que posibilitan construyen y promueven una cultura transhumanista. De hecho, podríamos decir que casi cada mundo virtual es, por definición, una oportunidad para trascender nuestros límites biológicos (Geraci, 2012). En este sentido, encontramos al menos tres razones a considerar:…”

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Y seréis como Dios: La construcción de divinidades ludoficcionales en el contexto transhumanista

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2017

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El presente artículo explora la construcción de divinidades en los videojuegos y sus implicaciones narrativas a partir de una reflexión sobre la evolución tecnológica, el reencantamiento mítico y el transhumanismo. Tras una revisión teórica sobre dichos conceptos, la investigación se basa en una metodología cualitativa mediante el análisis textual, utilizando en primer lugar una clasificación de género basado en un modelo semánticopragmático de clasificación de elementos ludoficcionales, para posteriormente analizar dos ejemplos representativos de los denominados God Games: Populous (Bullfrog, 1989) y Cities: Skylines (Colossal Order, 2015). Por un lado, dicho análisis pone de manifiesto una cristalización de los ideales y tensiones transhumanistas. Por otro lado, cada juego genera una teología propia, limitada por el propio diseño diegético, que va en dos direcciones: un videojugador empoderado bajo propuestas de corte militar y politeísta, o la generación de escenarios de tipo económico basados en estrategias de higienismo y control social.

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Video Games and the Transhuman Inclination

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

TECHNO‐SECULARITY AND TECHNO‐SAPIENS: EDITORIAL FOR ZYGON'S FIRST REAL VIRTUAL ISSUE

TECHNO‐SECULARITY AND TECHNO‐SAPIENS: EDITORIAL FOR ZYGON'S FIRST REAL VIRTUAL ISSUE

A Hydra‐logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology

Y seréis como Dios: La construcción de divinidades ludoficcionales en el contexto transhumanista

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