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Ep. 37: James Poulos: Digital Politics & Spiritual War

The Moral Imagination

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The Mystical Conception of Personhood

"We can't really prevent these people from making these technological interventions in order to transform their identity away from their human identity," he says. "If any of their parents should presume to deny this identity or to prevent them from fully actualizing it, well, those parents are just going to have to be punished by law and have their children taken away." The idea that technology is the arbiter of its own identity has been around for a long time; Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto was an early example.

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