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The Enhancement Outlives Its Maker: Who Owes the Human Continued Support?

November 12, 2020

My illustration entitled: "The Keeper of a Thousand Years" - An ageless transhuman stands inside an immense, weathered observatory. Their subtly enhanced body contrasts with centuries of surrounding archite...

Who Decides Which Bodies Are Allowed?

July 10, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cathedral of Possible Bodies" - A transhuman stands in a monumental circular hall surrounded by suspended, translucent representations of possible embodiments: winged, aquatic...

Human-Sovereignty Transhumanism and the Military: The Non-Negotiable Red Lines

October 20, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Child Beyond the Line" — A young person stands safely outside a military laboratory boundary, symbolising the absolute ban on military enhancement of minors. Military org...

The Sovereign Child: Consent, Neurotechnology and Genetic Intervention for Minors

March 22, 2017

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Family Consent Table" — Parents and a clinician review a genetic intervention plan while the child’s seat and voice are visibly central, not absent. A child cannot sign a...

The Right to Disconnect From Your Own Body: Exit Rights for Implants, BCIs and Bionics

June 17, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Body Is Not a Subscription" — A figure cutting a chain of digital subscription icons linking their body to a corporate cloud. An implant, brain-computer interface or bion...

The Freedom to Change Your Mind After Changing Your Body

January 28, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Wings We Chose" - highly enhanced woman unfurls enormous biomechanical wings on a mountain summit. Featherlike solar membranes, metallic bones and living tissue form a strikin...

More Capable, Less Free: When Human Enhancement Becomes Human Subordination

August 12, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Next Human" - A transhuman stands on a cliff above a vast future civilization: exposed titanium limbs, subtle bioluminescent skin, luminous neural pathways and graceful organi...

Cultural Aesthetics: Transhumanism Is Reprogramming Beauty Itself

June 6, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

Above is my illustration of Cultural Aesthetics and Transhumanism Beauty. The standard of beauty is redefined, bionic and genetic modifications are beautiful as well. In discussions of morphological fr...

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