Far from an ethereal soul or some intangible essence, then, selfhood means that I
am the end result of innumerable processes occurring inside a pale pink, three-pound sack of meat.
Finally, 'Timely Meditations on the Transhuman Condition: Nihilism, Entropy, and Beyond' is a tour-de-force, citing amongst others Ernst Junger, Heidegger, Kant, Raoul Vaneigem, Guy Debord, Lewis Mumford, Frederic Jameson, Regis Debray, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Alvin Toffler, Richard Blackburn, Hans Moravec, Frank Tipler, Lyotard, Jacques Ellul, Marcuse, Habermas, Immanuel Wallerstein, Prigogine and Stengers, and Mike Davis, concluding with a meditation on '[l]ife as a good or bad infection, gasping for its resurrection: I am the future, I am tomorrow, I
am the end' (p.
