O transhumanismo nas revistas científicas brasileiras: do mapeamento aos debates

Abstract

Transhumanim is an intellectual movement that has started to consolidate from the end of the 1980’s to the beginning of the1990’s and that seeks to enhance human capacities – physical and psychological – beyond its biological limitations through technologies. Thus, it has human enhancement as aim. Even though transhumanism has roots in literary and mythological narratives, in modern humanistic philosophy and in technoscientifical advancements of the last centuries, some authors think about it by a sociopolitical perspective, proposing that this movement has gained impulse at a moment of political social imaginary decline. The theme is little discussed in Brazil yet, as we can see by the lack of systematic review of literature. It is this that this research has proposed: to organize a mapping that comes from a systematic review of literature in scientific journals edited in Brazil. For this, we used for descriptors: “transhumanismo”, “transumanism”, “trans-humanismo” and “transhumanism”, in data base SciELO and at the data base aggregator Portal CAPES. It was selected all papers found in journals edited in Brazil, without restriction criteria of idiom or publication date. Two exclusion criteria were adopted: 1) papers which did not contain any graphical variation of the term in the body of the text; 2) text format was restricted to papers. Thus, the first result was the construction of a textual corpus with 42 articles. Articles were found since 2009 to the year in which the searches at the data base were made (2021), with diverse authorship – including nationality, different languages, and different fields of knowledge and at journal with relevant academic impact. It was yet created another kind of secondary textual corpus with the most cited texts found in those articles, thus building, a kind of transhumanism characteristic primary literature studied by authors on those journals.