{"id":71425,"date":"2013-01-31T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/transhumanism-and-disability-by-elizabeth-synclair-furcon-2013-video.php"},"modified":"2013-01-31T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T10:55:43","slug":"transhumanism-and-disability-by-elizabeth-synclair-furcon-2013-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/transhumanism-and-disability-by-elizabeth-synclair-furcon-2013-video.php","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanism and Disability by Elizabeth Synclair &#8211; FurCon 2013 &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>Transhumanism and Disability by Elizabeth Synclair - FurCon 2013<br \/><span>Weaving together both wit and wonder on this panel at the Further Confusion Conference,[1] Elizabeth Synclair,[2] intern at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network,[3] speaks eloquently about the relationship between transhumanist culture, disability culture, and the parallels that relationship has to myriad aspects of our society mdash;even in places one may not expect. \"Transhumanists are transhuman, but so are a lot of other cultures, a lot of other people,\" Elizabeth says, citing examples that range from science fiction authors to trans* people. \"I #39;m not necessarily talking about surgery or hormones,\" she explains. \"I #39;m talking about pronoun changing. I #39;m talking about modifying the way that the world perceives and interacts with you based on a dream that you have for how you would like to be interacted with.\" Elizabeth argues that beyond merely hoping for a better tomorrow, transhumanist ideals are present and relevant to various facets of society today. She provides an overview of one particular example from the disability rights movement: The \"normative [model] says,  #39;You #39;re too different, be like the normal thing. #39; [The descriptive model] says,  #39;You have these traits. Okay, what do you want to do with them? What other traits do you want to have? What are your goals? #39; I think that #39;s better.\" \"I think our society is one that is deficient in dreams. And I #39;m so happy that I #39;ve fallen in among the dreamers,\" Elizabeth says. \"Too few people feel like they are allowed to try ...<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>By: <\/span>maymaym<span style=\"color: #666666; font-size: 11px;\"<br \/><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IEUbwuTdW8A\" title=\"Transhumanism and Disability by Elizabeth Synclair - FurCon 2013 - Video\">Transhumanism and Disability by Elizabeth Synclair - FurCon 2013 - Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Transhumanism and Disability by Elizabeth Synclair - FurCon 2013 Weaving together both wit and wonder on this panel at the Further Confusion Conference,[1] Elizabeth Synclair,[2] intern at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network,[3] speaks eloquently about the relationship between transhumanist culture, disability culture, and the parallels that relationship has to myriad aspects of our society mdash;even in places one may not expect.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/transhumanism-and-disability-by-elizabeth-synclair-furcon-2013-video.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}