Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword to the English Edition 11
4. A Who is Who? of Post- and Transhumanism 15
5. 1. Virtuality, Media, and Immortality. An Introduction 19
6. Part I Humans and Media
7. 2. Virtuality
8. Introduction 29
9. 2.1 Virtuality and Time 31
10. 2.2 Virtuality and Space 37
11. 2.3 Virtuality and Corporeality 40
12. 2.4 Virtuality, Reality, and the Imaginary 43
13. 3. Promethean Shame
14. 3.1 Human Beings and Technology in the Work of Günther Anders 51
15. 3.2 Virtuality and Death 55
16. Part II Technological Posthumanism
17. 4. Transhumanism
18. 4.1 Post- and Transhumanism 61
19. 4.2 Intellectual Predecessors and the Transhuman 62
20. 4.3 Early Transhumanism: Ettinger, FM-2030, Leary 68
21. 4.4 The Extropy Institute and the (Vita-)Mores 75
22. 4.5 The World Transhumanist Association / humanity+ 78
23. 4.6 Other Actors and Institutions 82
24. 4.7 Religious and Spiritual Transhumanism 87
25. 4.8 Conclusion 89
26. 5. Technological Posthumanism
27. Introduction 91
28. 5.1 The Posthuman and Posthumanism 92
29. 5.2 The Face of Posthumanism 95
30. 5.3 Posthumanism and Art 105
31. 6. A History of Technological Posthumanism
32. 6.1 Writing the “History of the Future” 115
33. 6.2 How We Became Posthuman 118
34. 6.3 Annihilation or Infinite Progress 158
35. 6.4 Singularities 197
36. 6.5 Immortality 218
37. 6.6 The Transcendental Superintelligence 260
38. 6.7 Omega 276
39. 7. Virtuality. Immortality in the Age of Digital Media
40. Introduction 291
41. 7.1 Economy 292
42. 7.2 Control and Contingency 297
43. 7.3 Secular Progress and Christian Salvation History 301
44. 7.4 The End of the Affronts 310
45. Appendix
46. List of Abbreviations 317
47. Bibliography 319
48. Index of Names 348