title: Cyborg identities and contemporary techno-utopias: adaptations and transformations of the body in the age of nanotechnology.
abstract: The possibility of improving the human body through a closer relationship with technology in order to overcome the human species toward new stages of evolution is a constant element of techno-utopian visions, among other transhumanism. This projection to a radical transformation of the body - and mind - as a result of technological action is based on the concepts of adaptation, or non adaptation, of a human being to a world constantly changed by technoscience. The belief is that not only the body has to change, but that identity is not a stable concept. This mobility in the relationship between body and identity is typical of the post human thought, which inherits from the informational model the conviction that the biological embodiment of human is to be regarded as an accident of history rather than as an essential condition of life. Hybridization is therefore valued by the post human thought as a condition which has "made" the human as he is today, and it appears as a fundamental topic in any discourse on nanotechnology, biotechnology and development of human-machine interfaces.
authors.affiliation: CETCOPRA, Université Paris 1.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maestrutti
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology