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Chapter 4 ‘Constituents’ is the first analytic/presentation of data chapter, which sketches out some preliminary demographic features of THE advocates and advocacy groupings encountered while moving across locations in the field. This chapter outlines some common social variables apparently common among those I met in spaces associated with THEA, as well as accounts offered by actors regarding the levels/forms of enhancement advocacy they had encountered themselves. Finally, it examines the socially constructed boundaries THE advocates evoked to limit or restrict access to groups organised around this objective.
“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra [1885]
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MacFarlane, J.M. (2020). Constituents. In: Transhumanism as a New Social Movement. Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40090-3_4
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