Metahumanism, Euro-transhumanism and Sorgner's Philosophy

Aura Elena Schussler is a lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University's Department of Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy. Since 2020, she has been in charge of organizing the Human Nature, Culture, Technology (NUCT) series of national conferences (in Romania) at Babes-Bolyai University's Faculty of History and Philosophy. At the same University, in 2018, she set up the student circle of transhumanism, posthumanism, and metahumanism. Among her primary research areas are the posthuman, technology, human enhancement, sexbots, eroticism, and pornography. She wrote several articles on topics related to trans-/posthumanism, religion, and sexuality published in well-known international journals. She is the author of two books, written in Romanian: Obscenul ca valoare postmodern? (Casa C?r?ii de ?tiin??, 2013) and Dintre ale corpului ?i min?ii: despre Seduc?ie, Erotism ?i Pornografie (Casa C?r?ii de ?tiin??, 2011).Maurizio Balistreri is Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy and Bioethics at the Department of Linguistic and Literary, Historical, Philosophical and Legal Studies (DISTU) of the University of Tuscia (Viterbo). He was Chair of the Turin Bioethics Lab and is Editor of the Icaro book series (Fandango). His main research interests include bioethics, applied ethics, robot ethics and ethics of artificial intelligence. He has published on different topics of bioethics, applied ethics, moral philosophy and space travelling. His latest books are Il Bambino migliore? Che cosa significa essere genitori responsabili al tempo del genome editing (Fandango, 2022), Superumani. Etica e potenziamento (Espress 2011; 2020); Sex robot. Love in the Age of Machines (Fandango 2018; Malpaso 2021; Trivent 2022), Il futuro della riproduzione umana (Fandango 2016), La clonazione umana prima di Dolly (Mimesis 2015). He is co-author of Biotecnologie e organismi modificati. Scienza, etica e diritto (Il Mulino 2020).

• Introduction, Aura Elena Schussler and Maurizio BalistreriPART I. PHILOSOPHICAL, THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ASPECTS ON SORGNER'S "ON TRANSHUMANISM"CHAPTER 1. Aura Elena Schussler, An Incursion into 'Weak Transhumanism'CHAPTER 2. Elise Bohan, Nietzsche and Transhumanism: Much Ado About Nothing?CHAPTER 3. Manuel Knoll, Nietzsche and Transhumanism: The Case of the Overhuman (Übermensch) CHAPTER 4. Mariano Rodríguez González, The Problematic Coherence of a Nietzschean TranshumanismCHAPTER 5. Maurizio Balistreri, Transhumanism According to Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Why the Posthuman Project Requires Responsibility and EmpathyCHAPTER 6. Mirko Daniel Garasic, Some of the Critical Aspects of Sorgner's "On Transhumanism"CHAPTER 7. Sven Nyholm, The World's Most Dangerous Idea? Transhumanism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, and Existential Risk, Some Comments on Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's "On Transhumanism"CHAPTER 8. Leo Igwe, Transhumanism and Emerging Technologies: Exploring Ethics and Human Enhancement in Africa CHAPTER 9. Natasha Brie Beranek, The MetahumanitiesCHAPTER 10. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Entering the Intellectual Discourses on "On Transhumanism" PART II. EURO-TRANSHUMANISM—AND WHY "WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CYBORGS"CHAPTER 11. Maurizio Balistreri, Should Posthuman be (Human)-enhancement Based? The Meaning of Posthuman Project in the Age of Climate Change and Space Travelling CHAPTER 12. Russell Blackford, Sorgner on Freedom, Violence, and Privacy CHAPTER 13. John Danaher, In Praise of Objectivism, Optimism and Utopianism: A Counterpoint to Sorgner CHAPTER 14. Steve Fuller, How to be a Bioconservative Transhumanist CHAPTER 15. Steven Umbrello, Sociotechnical Infrastructures of Dominion in Stefan L. Sorgner's We Have Always Been Cyborgs CHAPTER 16. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Smear Gel Paper for a Contingent Marble Sculpture A Reply to some Critics PART III. METAHUMANISM DANCES THE TWIST DURING POSTHUMAN PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE "PHILOSOPHY OF POSTHUMAN ART"CHAPTER 17. Yunus Tuncel, Arts in the Age of Posthumanism: Reflections on Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's Philosophy of Posthuman Art CHAPTER 18. Franc Mali, The Way Transhumanism is Leading to the Convergence of all Spheres of Creative Human Thought CHAPTER 19. Kerstin Borchhardt, Of Plastic Selkies and Hybrid Puppies: Posthuman Mythopoesia in Times of the Ecological Crisis CHAPTER 20. Žarko Pai?, Singularity, Aisthesis and Artwork Postscript on Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's Philosophy of Posthuman Art CHAPTER 21. Evi D. Sampanikou, Art Has Always Been the Product of a Philosophizing Cyborg. Looking Inside "Philosophy of Posthuman Art" by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner CHAPTER 22. Russell J.A. Kilbourn, Adorno, Beckett. Wagner, Artaud: Reflections on Stefan Sorgner's Philosophy of Posthuman Art CHAPTER 23. Maurizio Balistreri, The Use of Human Embryos for Artistic Applications. Bioethical Considerations on Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's Philosophy of Posthuman Art CHAPTER 24. Malte Frey, Posthumanism's Western Localization and non-Western Posthumanism in Anime. On Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's Philosophy of Posthuman Art CHAPTER 25. Marius Markuckas, On the Question of the Possibility to Replace the Human with Technology in the Creative Process CHAPTER 26. Ferén David Barrios Pérez, Towards a Posthuman Philosophy of Art: A Response to Stefan Sorgner's Philosophy of Posthuman Art CHAPTER 27. Dario Giugliano, A Poetics of Contemporary Art to Understand the Meaning of Our Age CHAPTER 28. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, On Constructive and Destructive Interferences in the Life and in Art Worlds: A Reply