The Bioethics of Human Enhancement

Transhumanism is a weird area of study and a complicated field to try to get your head around. Pop Transhumanism is shifting it’s focus a bit and I’m looking more intensely at specific issues of ethics within the modification of human beings. Don’t worry, now that I’m back from my international travels there will be regular postings and my obsession with pop-culture won’t go away. In fact, it’ll probably be heightened, because now it’ll feel more like a break from the rigor than a distraction.

This will be the third time this blog has undergone revision and not the last, I suspect. Every part of what this blog tries to cover is fledgling and difficult to categorize. It is also a very public way for me to figure out what it is I’m trying to study. For now, I’ve settled on a new line of focus: The Bioethics of Human Enhancement. And I’ve given up on trying to report/break/immediately discuss stories. That’s not what I’m good at doing. I’m no reporter and awful at neutral prose (as R.U. Sirius can confirm). I’m an analyzer and synthesizer. I’m also a debater, so hopefully I can nettle a few of my fellow technophiles and a lot of technophobes and bioconservatives into some rousing discussions.

Right now I have a few big gun targets lined up for critique. Among them, Jurgan Habermas, Francis Fukuyama, and the critics of Oscar Pistorius and Aimee Mullins. Additionally, I’m working on an analysis of Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom’s core ethical theories. Oh, and an essay on Lady Gaga.

For those of you harassing me to get writing again, thank you.