Comments on: Will Athletes be the Transhuman Vanguard? http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/19/will-atheletes-be-the-transhuman-vanguard/ Gearing Up for Social and Technological Insurrection :: anarchotranshumanism.com Mon, 02 May 2011 05:46:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Antisocialite http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/19/will-atheletes-be-the-transhuman-vanguard/#comment-319 Tue, 22 May 2007 19:09:17 +0000 http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/19/will-atheletes-be-the-transhuman-vanguard/#comment-319 Thanks. Great points. I certainly don’t exclude drugs or other forms of biochemical enhancement in the argument presented above. In fact drugs are probably the area that’s seeing the most advanced use by athletes right now if you look at things like steroids, blood doping techniques and other performance enhancers. You only need to pick up a sports and fitness magazine to be bombarded with an awesome array of ‘supplements’ intended to enhance the human body.

]]> By: Acumensch http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/19/will-atheletes-be-the-transhuman-vanguard/#comment-314 Tue, 22 May 2007 02:46:02 +0000 http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/19/will-atheletes-be-the-transhuman-vanguard/#comment-314 Nice blog!

Athletics does seem to be the area where we will see these enhancement technologies crop up, I agree. But you have to wonder whether human enhancement includes more than simply mechanical and physical enhancements. For example, does human enhancement also include chemical modification? Militaries around the world have often used biochemical enhancements to alter the state of mind soldiers are in, or to ease pain. Medical science is full of cyborgs, as Haraway says.

I don’t mean to imply that this is a bad thing. But it does have implications for atheletics.

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