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Futurists will convene to discuss bots, biometrics and all things forward-thinking at the first-ever Transhuman Strategies conference

Prospect silicon valley, a nonprofit clean-tech commercialization incubator, sits on Las Plumas Avenue in East San Jose, somewhere between King Road and 101.

Located in a mysterious wilderness of business parks and industrial landscapes, the venue already seems "out there" beyond good and evil, beyond native and exotic, beyond urban and suburban. So it seems fitting in post-cyberpunk fashion that San Jose's first-ever Transhuman Strategies conference will unfold this Saturday.

Our old pal R.U. Sirius and several other edge-thinking provocateurs will wax poetic about life extension, biohacking, anti-aging technologies, neuroscience, biometrics and all sorts of subjects related to transhumanism. In particular, Sirius, along with compadre Jay Cornell, will sign copies of their new book, Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity.

Crudely simplified, transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated as H+) is a futurist ideology aiming to enhance the intellectual, physical and psychological capacities of humans. In many cases, the discussion revolves around the use or misuse of technology to augment human capability. For example, this could involve cutting-edge medical research in anti-aging, the use of nanobots in your bloodstream, or even the garage tinkerer taking a scalpel to himself and implanting diodes in his fingers. There's a wide variety of activity and discussion continuing to unfold, all under the banner of transhumanism. There's even a magazine called H+.

"Transhumanists believe that humans can, should and have an implicit right to enhance themselves through technology beyond the currently perceived limits," Sirius tells me. "Currently, the focus is largely on slowing, stopping and perhaps reversing aging soon. This means increased healthspan as well as lifespan. And on increased intelligence, whether through neural and chemical interventions or through unifying with advanced artificial intelligence."

Way back in the pre-Internet days of the late '80s/early '90s, Sirius co-founded Mondo 2000, a pioneering magazine of radical technology, cyberpunk visions, fractals, drugs, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, raves, robot sex, electronic music and other faster-than-light energy fields for the tech-savvy masses. Ten years ago, he also published Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, a cosmopolitan romp through dropout culture from biblical patriarchs to the current day. (Abraham being the first dropout, of course.) These days, Sirius shows up in all the transhumanism arguments. His new book, Transcendence, is yet another taxonomic table-spread of characters, movements, technologies and ideas intended to apply a sense of humor to the whole shooting match. Sirius says the time was right for such a book.

"In 1993, I coauthored Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, which told people about the digital reality that was about to swallow them up," Siri

us says. "Now seems like a good time to talk about how robotics, longevity drugs, replaceable parts and a whole host of other transhumanoid technologies are likely to start having an effect." Several others on the cutting-edge will present at the conference, which begins with a "Meet & Greet" session from 12:15-1pm, followed by speakers from 1-5pm. In one case, Hank Pellissier, director of the Brighter Brains Institute, has produced eight transhumanist conferences in in the last few years, while also authoring Invent Utopia Now: Transhumanist Suggestions for the Pre-Singularity Era, and Brighter Brains: 225 ways to elevate or injure IQ. In another case, life extension activist Maria Konovalenko is a Biology of Aging PhD student at USC and also Vice President of the Science for Life Extension Foundation in Moscow. Even better, the writer, futurist and philosopher Zoltan Istvan is the founder of the Transhumanist political party and is that party's 2016 presidential candidate. All of these innovative characters will dazzle the audience with radical forward-thinking ideas on how to augment the human lifespan.

Sirius says that even though Google and DARPA are working on huge projects related to transhumanist ideas, there's a tremendous fervor below the surface, whether it's citizen science, biohacking or even maker culture.

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The conceptual "TransHuman Generation Art" off Geert Vanhoovels covers philosophical aspects related to transhumanism. This is a recent form of speculative philosophy that tries to break through...

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When you dive into Powers, the new series hitting Sony PlayStation this week, youre entering into a world where superheroes and villains exist, but its the poor schlubs of the police force who have to clean everything up afterwards. Its a take on the genre that might be surprising for audiences more used to the sleek government agencies of the Marvel universe, but you get used to it. It also helps if youve consumed the source materialparticularly the works of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, who co-created the comics the show is based on. Heres a quick reading list to help you prepare.

The relationship between the Powers comic book and TV show is akin to that between the comic and TV versions of The Walking Dead: the characters and overall situation are the same, and some events are shared, but theyre essentially alternate takes on the same ideas. That means you can read the earliest issues of Bendis and Oemings comic and think of them as an ersatz preview of whats to come, instead of a series of spoilers for the show itself. How to read it: Available digitally and in print collections as Who Killed Retro Girl?, Roleplay, and Little Deaths.

The first issues of the comic book series second volume might be a jump ahead from the previous selectionthe first volume ran 37 issues and one annual in totalbut the Legends storyline might prove particularly important for one of the characters at the center of the Powers show. No spoilers here, but once you see the first episode and wonder if Calista (played in the show by Olesya Rulin) will get the superpowers she longs for, youll find yourself tempted to skip to the answer in here. (The second volumes revised premise, which sees superpowers outlawed as the result of an apocalyptic event in the previous series, also hints at a potential future for the TV show; think of it as a somewhat involved What if?) How to read it: Available digitally and in the Legends print collection.

Outside of the realm of Powers, another comic book written by Bendis also offers some of the attitude on display in the show. Scarlet might not feature superpowers, but its focus on the beginnings of a social insurrectionand, in particular, the young girl at the center of it alltouches on some of the generational issues on display in the Powers show, as well as showing a somewhat less favorable attitude towards the authorities. You can almost imagine Scarlet being one of the younger characters bitter at those with superpowers and hanging around with Calista, in many ways. (Lovely art by Alex Maleev, as well.) How to read it: Available digitally and in a print collection.

For those looking for more straight-forward superheroics, Powers co-creator Michael Avon Oeming is also the man behind The Victories, a straight-up superhero epic, complete with Superman and Batman analogs (Metatron and Faustus, respectively). Oeming described the series as being about the heroes behind the mask, which makes it a good companion piece to the equally-grounded Powers if one thats a little more sympathetic to the guys in tights. How to read it: Available digitally and in the Transhuman, Posthuman and Metahuman print collections.

And now for something completely different: Bendis and Oeming dont just collaborate on Powers; theyre also the co-creators of a kid-friendly series called Takio, about two sisters who end up with superpowers and decide to use them to fight crime. The series, which so far consists of two graphic novels, has a similar sense of humor and the frenetic pacing of Powers, but replaces the satirical grimness of the latter with something far more zany, for want of a better word. Think of it as the pitch for the next Sony PlayStation series. How to read it: Available digitally and in print editions.

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The conversation about Sydney's new Gehry building resurrects the beauty question. To most people it seems a small question, almost trivial, a foible. I beg to differ. In my opinion it's a question every bit as important as Medicare and motorways and massively more subversive, because it's about how we connect to the universe.

We moderns are shy of beauty. We don't know what it means, what it's for or what it's worth. Unable to weigh it or count it, we accept the boofheads' view that beauty is both superficial and almost embarrassingly personal. Beauty is something to lust after, compete for, even own but not something to talk about. The conversation starts and finishes with "I like it", as though that's all there is.

Our buildings look rubbish (compared with those designed by Vanbrugh or Palladio) and our music sounds crude (compared with that of Bach or Verdi)

How did we get it so wrong?

Beauty may be subjective, but this is precisely why it matters. Its subjectivity takes it from some optional externality for when you have time and money, like that retirement novel you'll never write, to being as daily a necessity as bread or water.

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Beauty is a need and a right. In all its forms personal, musical, visual, spatial, natural, moral and mathematical it is something we should debate and demand, something to march for in the streets.

Everything in our culture tells us to despise and devalue beauty. Our brash cowboy background makes beauty a luxury. Twentieth century scientism sidelined it into the squashy female bracket, to be closeted in the "home". The subsequent postmodern overlay reinforced this, making beauty so personal and contingent we barely have a common language, even, for the discussion. And the neoliberal greywash over the lot means that if it can't be dollar-costed, it has no meaning, value or a right toexist.

Yet our deepest experience gives lie to this, as does our entire species memory. Beauty used to be the focus of intense imaginative engagement, philosophical enquiry, education and public pursuit. Taken as one of the highest human values - up there with truth and love it was tested and scrutinised, pummelled and parsed, debated, refined and above all taught.

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