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KNL "Politics, Religion, and Variants of Transhumanism", with Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner ( John Cabot University)

Keynote Lecture on Politics, Religion and variations of Transhumanism by Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

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Dec 16, 2025 from 04:00 to 06:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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GCSC Conference Room

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+49 (0) 641 / 99-30 041

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

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Transhumanism is much more than a technological utopia-it has become an influential philosophy among global decision-makers. While it does not play a major role in political discourse or academia in the European Union, it usually appears in the media in a highly simplified form: as a monolith that is either ridiculed as a science fiction scenario or caricatured as superhumanity and Nietzsche's Übermensch. However, the common images - from digital immortality through consciousness transfer to pop culture exaggerations à la "Superman on Viagra" - obscure the actual relevance of the topic. Beyond such exaggerations, transhumanism is already influencing the thinking and actions of numerous actors worldwide.

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Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, academic Advisor of Humanity+, and Visiting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He is editor of more than 10 essay collections, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth (Marquette University Press 2007), Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche (WBG 2010), Transhumanismus (Herder 2016), Schöner neuer Mensch (Nicolai, 2018), Übermensch (Schwabe 2019), On Transhumanism (Penn State University Press 2020), We have always been cyborgs (Bristol University Press 2022), Philosophy of Posthuman Art (Schwabe 2022), Transhumanismus (mit Philip von Becker, Westendverlag 2023), Homo ex Machina  (together with Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Goldmann 2023, in German), Homo ex Machina  (together with Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Mirae N Co, Ltd 2024, in Korean translation), Philosophy of Posthuman Art (Epikentro 2024, in Greek translation) ), Euro-Transhumanism (Bristol University Press, to be published in 2026). In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the "Journal of Posthuman Studies" (a double-blind peer review journal, published by Penn State University Press since 2017). Furthermore, he is in great demand as a speaker in all parts of the world (World Humanities Forum, Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Biennale Arte Venezia, TEDx, Colours of Ostrava) and a regular contact person of national and international journalists and media representatives (Die Zeit, Cicero, Der Standard; Die Presse am Sonntag, Philosophy Now, Il Sole 24 Ore). CV. CV & http://www.mousike.de/

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