I would suggest that actually we've been living in the transhumanist era for 50 years,

where we're half a century into the transhumanist age, and really it began with a contraceptive pill.

Mary Harrington is a self-described reactionary feminist, contributing editor at Unheard, and author of

Feminism Against Progress.

We sat down together at the Dissident Dialogue's Festival to discuss the intersection of

progress, individual freedom, technology, and ultimately

transhumanism.

What that opens up is a whole theoretically incident spectrum of engineering of ourselves,

seeing human nature itself as a set of tech problems to be solved

It just won't matter how often we set out trying to trying to wage war on our own nature. It will just find a way of coming back

This is American Thought Leaders and I'm

Yanya Kelleck. Mary Harrington such a pleasure to have you on American

thought leaders here at dissident dialogues.

Thank you for having me.

Well, Mary, I've been following your work for quite some time,

and especially your work around transhumanism

and thinking about, you know, why is it that we're in this very strange moment where we have these transhumanist

manifestations happening on all different aspects of society? But you've kind of taken it a little further. I become fascinated with this recent piece that you brought.

I want to focus on that today. You don't believe in progress.

And it turns out that this is a central idea to this, to your argument in this new piece yeah

when I say I don't believe in progress I don't mean I think the world is

getting worse or or all that I don't think ever changes because these things are obviously not true.

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