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Books From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology
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From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology

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Silvia Guerini

If the human being is allowed to be genetically manipulated and made by artificial means in the laboratory in an unstoppable crescendo of experimentation, what will be left to defend?

This book is a radical critique of gender ideology and transhuman design. Silvia Guerini shows how the TQ+ rights agenda is being pushed by eugenicist capitalist technocrats at the top of Big Business, Big Philanthropy, Big Tech and Big Pharma companies. She argues that dissociation from our sexed bodies leads to dissociation from reality, with the human body transformed into a permanent construction site besieged by synthetic and artificial interventions. Erasure of the material dimension of bodies and sexual difference is an erasure of women. She explains how fundamental struggles such as the fight against genetic engineering and the fight against artificial reproduction can only advance in conjunction with an opposition to gender ideology. By linking ‘gender identity’ to the genetic modification of bodies, she warns that humanity itself is at risk of becoming a synthetic life form with synthetic emotions within a virtual, fluid, deconstructed metaverse. Today, being revolutionary means preserving everything that makes us human. It means defending the living world and nature as entities to be respected, not as parts that can be broken down and redesigned in a laboratory world.

The idea of the ‘neutral’ body and body modification pave the way for the construction of the post-human cyborg and the genetic engineering of bodies. Is the last bioethical barrier about to be breached to give way to transhumanist demands? And at what cost?

OCTOBER 2023 | 9781925950885 | Paperback | 168 pages

THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE GENDER CRITICAL COLLECTION & THE SPINIFEX SHORTS COMPLETE COLLECTION

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Silvia Guerini

If the human being is allowed to be genetically manipulated and made by artificial means in the laboratory in an unstoppable crescendo of experimentation, what will be left to defend?

This book is a radical critique of gender ideology and transhuman design. Silvia Guerini shows how the TQ+ rights agenda is being pushed by eugenicist capitalist technocrats at the top of Big Business, Big Philanthropy, Big Tech and Big Pharma companies. She argues that dissociation from our sexed bodies leads to dissociation from reality, with the human body transformed into a permanent construction site besieged by synthetic and artificial interventions. Erasure of the material dimension of bodies and sexual difference is an erasure of women. She explains how fundamental struggles such as the fight against genetic engineering and the fight against artificial reproduction can only advance in conjunction with an opposition to gender ideology. By linking ‘gender identity’ to the genetic modification of bodies, she warns that humanity itself is at risk of becoming a synthetic life form with synthetic emotions within a virtual, fluid, deconstructed metaverse. Today, being revolutionary means preserving everything that makes us human. It means defending the living world and nature as entities to be respected, not as parts that can be broken down and redesigned in a laboratory world.

The idea of the ‘neutral’ body and body modification pave the way for the construction of the post-human cyborg and the genetic engineering of bodies. Is the last bioethical barrier about to be breached to give way to transhumanist demands? And at what cost?

OCTOBER 2023 | 9781925950885 | Paperback | 168 pages

THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE GENDER CRITICAL COLLECTION & THE SPINIFEX SHORTS COMPLETE COLLECTION

Transgender Body Politics
Transgender Body Politics
A$24.95

Silvia Guerini

If the human being is allowed to be genetically manipulated and made by artificial means in the laboratory in an unstoppable crescendo of experimentation, what will be left to defend?

This book is a radical critique of gender ideology and transhuman design. Silvia Guerini shows how the TQ+ rights agenda is being pushed by eugenicist capitalist technocrats at the top of Big Business, Big Philanthropy, Big Tech and Big Pharma companies. She argues that dissociation from our sexed bodies leads to dissociation from reality, with the human body transformed into a permanent construction site besieged by synthetic and artificial interventions. Erasure of the material dimension of bodies and sexual difference is an erasure of women. She explains how fundamental struggles such as the fight against genetic engineering and the fight against artificial reproduction can only advance in conjunction with an opposition to gender ideology. By linking ‘gender identity’ to the genetic modification of bodies, she warns that humanity itself is at risk of becoming a synthetic life form with synthetic emotions within a virtual, fluid, deconstructed metaverse. Today, being revolutionary means preserving everything that makes us human. It means defending the living world and nature as entities to be respected, not as parts that can be broken down and redesigned in a laboratory world.

The idea of the ‘neutral’ body and body modification pave the way for the construction of the post-human cyborg and the genetic engineering of bodies. Is the last bioethical barrier about to be breached to give way to transhumanist demands? And at what cost?

OCTOBER 2023 | 9781925950885 | Paperback | 168 pages

THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE GENDER CRITICAL COLLECTION & THE SPINIFEX SHORTS COMPLETE COLLECTION

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Listen to a translated Q&A with Silvia on Women’s Liberation Radio News. Starts: 12:42

From Bad to Worse to the End of the World: A Review of From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg, by Silvia Guerini. Review by aurora linnea. Read it here.


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Silvia Guerini’s From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology gives a vital, highly engaging critique of transgenderism, focusing on it as an industrialized, alienated war against the body. Read the full review.

— Donovan Cleckley, The Distance

With uncompromising clarity of vision, Silvia Guerini turns our eyes in the necessary direction. Our task now is to gather the courage not to look away. Read the full review.

— aurora linnea, Women's Liberation Radio News


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