Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner’s Philosophy of Transhumanism Through a Latin American Lens
JCU is pleased to announce the publication of Latin America Replies to Transhumanism: A Symposium on Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs. This multifaceted volume brings together a constellation of Latin American philosophical voices in direct engagement with the work of JCU philosopher Professor Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, one of the leading figures in contemporary transhumanist thought.
Edited by Nicolás Rojas Cortés and published in May 2025 by Trident, this 195-page collection offers a timely and global dialogue with Sorgner’s acclaimed book We Have Always Been Cyborgs, which has been widely recognized for its original synthesis of transhumanist philosophy, Nietzschean ethics, and biotechnological as well as digital visions. The symposium is a rare example of a sustained philosophical exchange that transcends continental boundaries, inviting readers to reconsider the implications of transhumanism in light of Latin American intellectual, cultural, and ethical perspectives.
The volume features eight essays, each offering a distinct philosophical response to Sorgner’s theses. Miguel González Vallejos opens the symposium with a probing examination of “Sorgner’s Nihilist Ethics,” while Andrés Vaccari proposes a critical reconfiguration of transhumanism itself. José Díaz Fernández explores the possibilities of “Transeducation” within a decolonial framework, and Nicolás Rojas Cortés, in a characteristically incisive contribution, interrogates the potential for freedom and agency within cyborg ontology.
Further essays include Fabiola Villela Cortés’s reflection on the role of genetic determinism in transhumanist narratives, Nicole Oré Kovacs’s Aristotelian approach to moral education in a posthuman context, Jairo Andrés Villalba Gomez’s construction of a distinctly Latin American transhumanist vision, and Ferén Barrios’s “glocal” meditation on the planetary stakes of techno-philosophy.
The volume concludes with a reply by Prof. Sorgner himself, who addresses the complex philosophical and political challenges raised by these Latin American interlocutors. His contribution, “Glocal Challenges of Euro-Transhumanism,” exemplifies the kind of cosmopolitan dialogue that defines both his work and this collection.
