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  • A lot of things associated with 'transcendance', ie extended lifespans, planetary colonization, virtual reality, etc will be well on its way before the singularity even happens, if it does...

    The Speculist: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • A lot of things associated with 'transcendance', ie extended lifespans, planetary colonization, virtual reality, etc will be well on its way before the singularity even happens, if it does...

    The Speculist: Survey Results 1-9 2006

  • It's the sort of subject where I am pretty opinionated meself -- opposed to anything which implies transcendance of the flesh, the whole Cartesian duality of soul and body -- but with the so much depending on how you define your terms, it's the sort of subject where people can be talking at cross-purposes at the best of times.

    Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

  • It's the sort of subject where I am pretty opinionated meself -- opposed to anything which implies transcendance of the flesh, the whole Cartesian duality of soul and body -- but with the so much depending on how you define your terms, it's the sort of subject where people can be talking at cross-purposes at the best of times.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • It's themes of death and particularly a death in the absence of transcendance are not bright and cheery.

    A Difficult Woman 2009

  • It's really a mythical tale of transcendance, a lesson in how to live a life making every day count.

    Happy Groundhog Day aka TBTAM 2009

  • (This was the mid-Seventies, when high schoolers looking for stirrings of transcendance felt obligated to read Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.)

    Fifteen books that given the way my life has turned out I probably shouldn't have read 2009

  • In addition to all of this, Media Matters points out that he's not exactly worth hoisting on the pedestal of racial transcendance either:

    Kevin Pezzi, Big Government's Bizarre Racial-Relations Expert, Is Quite The Sexpert 2010

  • The Information Age wonders of Singlarity fiction, it should be noted, could be considered a sort of idyllic/baroque/grotesque depending on one's level of investment in the dream of transcendance; you could see the futureshock of modernity in there or a new frontier myth.

    Of Genres and Sub-Genres Hal Duncan 2008

  • Perhaps Sotomayor also believes that judicial transcendance of personal sympathies and prejudices is a desirable goal; but since in her view it is probably impossible to achieve in a large number of cases, it will often be a “disservice” to pursue it at the expense of denying the special insights that might sometimes be had by relying on those “prejudices” after all.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor’s “Latina Judge’s Voice” Speech Revisited: 2009

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