Gray Ghost ✈️uphill battle to convince transhumanists that we really should drop analytic philosophy, as its founding assumptions lead to cishumanism. instead we should read continental thinkers such as Leroi-Gourhan, Canguilhem, Simondon, Deleuze, Stiegler, Haraway, Stengers, Vivieros de Castro... Somehow the latter get labeled 'Posthumanist' thinkers. the point is the 'good' transhumanism is already posthumanism. and we need convergence, especially on behalf of those developing technologies.
Analytics basically try to create a walled garden or Disney-style theme park where Hegel (and by extension Marx) never existed... ruled by the 18th-century God (the the 'rational economic actor', the 'free thinking individual', the res cogitans, the Kantian transcendental subject etc.) it's one thing to vigorously oppose important thinkers but to simply ignore them is intellectual dishonesty. And the real reason is neoliberalism and its hegemony over American institutions
I.e if a physicist pretended only Newtonian physics existed, they would be laughed at, or if biologists ignored modern genetics and reverted to animalculism... you can't simply pretend the 19th and 20th centuries don't exist. challenging them, wanting to move beyond them, that's OK (I may not agree), but forcing us all to live in a theme park where it's always 1740 does not benefit anyone.