Andrew Pilsch is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University.

• ContentsIntroduction1. An Inner Transhumanism: Modernism and Cognitive Evolution2. Astounding Transhumanism! Evolutionary Supermen and the Golden Age of Science Fiction3. Toward Omega: Hedonism, Suffering, and the Evolutionary Vanguard4. Transhuman Aesthetics: The New, the Lived, and the CuteConclusion: Acceleration and Evolutionary Futurist Utopian PracticeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"I know of no other work that provides such a detailed and penetrating analysis of a cultural trend-transhumanism-that promises, like it or not, to be of increasing importance in the near future."-Jeff Pruchnic, author of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition"Pilsch’s book offers a positive outlook of the posthumanist ethos and a nuanced consideration of transhumanism, contributing an important and lucid analysis of the movement’s evolution and a theoretical engagement with transhumanism’s rhetoric that will prove fascinating to anyone thinking about technology and the human limit."-Project Muse

Andrew Pilsch is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University.

• ContentsIntroduction1. An Inner Transhumanism: Modernism and Cognitive Evolution2. Astounding Transhumanism! Evolutionary Supermen and the Golden Age of Science Fiction3. Toward Omega: Hedonism, Suffering, and the Evolutionary Vanguard4. Transhuman Aesthetics: The New, the Lived, and the CuteConclusion: Acceleration and Evolutionary Futurist Utopian PracticeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"I know of no other work that provides such a detailed and penetrating analysis of a cultural trend-transhumanism-that promises, like it or not, to be of increasing importance in the near future."-Jeff Pruchnic, author of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition"Pilsch’s book offers a positive outlook of the posthumanist ethos and a nuanced consideration of transhumanism, contributing an important and lucid analysis of the movement’s evolution and a theoretical engagement with transhumanism’s rhetoric that will prove fascinating to anyone thinking about technology and the human limit."-Project Muse

Andrew Pilsch is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University.

• ContentsIntroduction1. An Inner Transhumanism: Modernism and Cognitive Evolution2. Astounding Transhumanism! Evolutionary Supermen and the Golden Age of Science Fiction3. Toward Omega: Hedonism, Suffering, and the Evolutionary Vanguard4. Transhuman Aesthetics: The New, the Lived, and the CuteConclusion: Acceleration and Evolutionary Futurist Utopian PracticeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"I know of no other work that provides such a detailed and penetrating analysis of a cultural trend-transhumanism-that promises, like it or not, to be of increasing importance in the near future."-Jeff Pruchnic, author of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition"Pilsch’s book offers a positive outlook of the posthumanist ethos and a nuanced consideration of transhumanism, contributing an important and lucid analysis of the movement’s evolution and a theoretical engagement with transhumanism’s rhetoric that will prove fascinating to anyone thinking about technology and the human limit."-Project Muse