Doctoral Fellow

Apolline Taillandier

Discipline: Political Science
Supervisor: Jenny Andersson
Enrolled: September 2016

Apolline Taillandier holds a master's degree in political theory from Sciences Po Paris. Her research focuses on transhumanist networks and predictions about a "posthuman" era. In her master’s thesis, she studied the historical origins of transhumanism and the role played by transhumanism in the justification of liberal eugenics. Within the framework of MaxPo's research project "The Power of the Future: Conditions of Political Possibility for a Post-Crisis Era," she will investigate the sociohistorical emergence and transnational evolution of contemporary transhumanist ideas and movements and seek to understand how economic actors and academics contribute to the legitimation of transhumanism and to the construction of "posthuman" futures. She will pay particular attention to market actors such as Google and Humanity+.

• Project description

  Now for the Long Term: A Study of Posthuman Futures in Contemporary Transhumanism

  The research focuses on transhumanist networks and predictions about a "posthuman" era. In her Master's thesis, Apolline Taillandier studied the historical origins of transhumanism and the role played by transhumanism in the justification of liberal eugenics. Within the framework of the MaxPo research project, "The Power of the Future: Conditions of Political Possibility for a Post-Crisis Era," she will investigate the sociohistorical emergence and transnational evolutions of contemporary transhumanist ideas and movements. In her dissertation research, she will seek to understand how economic actors and academics contribute to the legitimisation of transhumanism and to the construction of "posthuman" futures, paying particular attention to market actors such as Google and Humanity+.

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