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Technoscientific Rationality and Capitalist Accumulation. Transhumanism as Alienation in Marx’s Humanist Approach

In: Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought

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  • Baruc Jiménez Contreras

    (Complutense University of Madrid)

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The transhumanist movement aims to liberate the human subject through scientific and technological development. However, from Marx’s notion of alienation, transhumanism can be conceived as a process that exacerbates the degree of subordination carried out by the capitalist system. This research presents the relationship between capitalist accumulation, scientific and technological development, and the alienation of the labour process. It delves into how technoscientific rationality and the capitalist pursuit of profitability have created a “Promethean gap,” manifested in the transhumanist movement. It examines the impact of technoscientific commodities in a transhumanist scenario. The chapter also shows how technoscientific rationality and the dynamics of capitalist accumulation are associated with generating transhumanist and utilitarian ideals. This aspect coincides with the intensification of the alienating and fetishist condition of the system.

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  • Baruc Jiménez Contreras, 2023. "Technoscientific Rationality and Capitalist Accumulation. Transhumanism as Alienation in Marx’s Humanist Approach," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Estrella Trincado Aznar & Fernando López Castellano (ed.), Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought, chapter 0, pages 87-106, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-40139-8_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40139-8_5
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