Dale Carrico

Dale Carrico (born 1965) is an American critical theorist and rhetorician. He is best known for proposing techno-progressivism as a more rational and sophisticated alternative to both transhumanism and bioconservatism.^[1][2]

Carrico is a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received his PhD. in 2005, and is also a member of the visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute. Carrico was the Human Rights Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies from 2004 to 2008. He organized the 12th Annual Boundaries in Question Conference in March 2003, the 13th Annual Boundaries in Question Conference in March 2004, on the topic “New Feminist Perspectives on Biotechnology and Bioethics”, and was conference chair of the IEET conference on “Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights” held at Stanford Law School in May 2006.

The focus of Carrico’s work, both of his writing and teaching, has been the ongoing provocation of technological change on personal and public life. He writes and teaches technocritical theory, both in its cultural and ethical aspects, including bioethics, neuroethics, roboethics, existential risk assessment, and some elements of environmental ethics and design theory. He is currently adapting his dissertation into a book, Pancryptics: Technological Transformations of the Subject of Privacy. He also discusses technoethics and the cultural politics of disruptive technological change in his personal blog, Amor Mundi.

Online publications

• Carrico, Dale (2009). "Is Obama the Face of Ongoing p2p Democratization?". Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dale-carrico-on-obama-as-p2p-president/2009/03/16. 
• Carrico, Dale (2009). "Superlative futurology". Re-public. http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=850. 

References

1. ^ Carrico, Dale (2004). The Trouble with "Transhumanism": Part Two. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20041222/. Retrieved 2007-01-28. 
2. ^ Carrico, Dale (2005). Technoprogressivism Beyond Technophilia and Technophobia. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20060812/. Retrieved 2007-01-28. 

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