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Nietzsche´s vision of the ´overman´ continues to haunt the postmodern imagination. His call that ´man is something that must be overcome´ can no longer be seen as simple rhetoric. Our experiences of the hybrid realities of artificial life have made the ´transhuman´ a figure that looks over us all. Inspired by this vision, Keith Ansell Pearson sets out to examine if evolution is ´out of control´ and machines are taking over.

In a series of six fascinating perspectives, he links Nietzsche´s thought with the issues at stake in contemporary conceptions of evolution from the biological to the technological. Viroid Life; Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition considers the hybrid, ´inhuman´ character of our future with the aid of Nietzsche´s philosophy. Keith Ansell Pearson contrasts Nietzsche and Darwin before introducing the more recent figures such as Giles Deleuze and Guy Debord to sketch a new thinking of technics and machines and stress the ambiguous character of our ´machine enslavement´.