Humanity+

A campaign to encourage balanced and constructive portrayals of longevity, human enhancement and emerging technologies in popular culture.

Specific goals:

(a) Solicit offensive and counterproductive portrayals of longevity, human enhancement and emerging technologies, and encourage our membership, chapters and allies to dialogue with the authors, producers and distributors.

(b) Increase the sensitivity of culture creators and consumers to the biopolitical messages and bioconservative tropes in popular culture.

(c) Arrange letter-writing, protests, and boycotts of especially offensive films, television programs and books.

(d) Encoruage and promote transhumanist artists, authors, film-makers, game designers and culture creators.

Action items:

(a) Advertise and build the wta-arts list and Transhumanist Arts Gallery.

(b) Encourage members and chapters to report positive and negative portrayals of human enhancement, longevity, emerging technologies and posthumanity to the wta-arts list.

(c) Post critiques of bioconservative popular culture on Humanity+ website, and examples of more complex and constructive visions of the future.

(c) Send representatives to speak at appropriate meetings, such as conferences on science fiction and popular culture, and organize panels at SF cons on the need for more complex protrayals of a posthuman future.

(d) Arrange fora and meetings with authors, artists and culture creators to discuss the biopolitical messages in popular culture, and heighten their sensitivity to bioconservative tropes and biases.