Enemies List?

I was rather distressed to read a comment over at Accelerating Future referring to my "traditional enemies of transhumanists, transsexuals and cyborgs."

Working my way backward through this accusation, as I did there as well at less length, I have to point out that:

First, there are few if any "non-cyborgs" in our thoroughly acculturated, prostheticized world today, certainly I am one myself, as is every other language-user and tool-user, and so I cannot make sense of the idea that cyborgs would be my enemies in general, although I suppose I will cop to being the enemy of, you know, any eeeevil cyborgs out there, I guess.

Second, I am especially flabbergasted to hear somebody declare me an enemy of transsexuals, given my decades-long preoccupation with and advocacy of queer politics (as a pervy punky lefty aestheticized queer myself, after all), very much including transsex and intersex activism and advocacy.

Together with progressive democratization, I regard the struggle to facilitate ever more truly informed nonduressed consensual prosthetic self-determination amidst lifeway multiculture as pretty much my political bedrock. I just see that as conventional Pro-Choice politics amplified to include access to safe abortion to end unwanted pregnancies as well as to ARTs to facilitate wanted ones, legalized, regulated consensual recreational drug use, celebration of the proliferating diversity of body-art practices, advocacy of truly informed consensual recourse to (or abstention from) either normalizing or non-normalizing but wanted genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive therapies, and so on.

There is certainly no need at all to join a Robot Cult to advocate technoscientifically literate Pro-Choice politics, nor any cause to confuse technoscientifically literate Pro-Choice politics with the views of Robot Cultists who pine for the arrival of a Robot God to solve their problems, who pine for immortalization or for invulnerability through uploading into computer networks or cyborg-shellification or medical wish-fulfillment fantasies, or who pine for the circumvention of stakeholder-politics through the arrival of some fantastic super-abundant techno-plenitude of robot slaves, nanobotic genies in bottles or virtual treasure caves.

Third, and so, as far as transhumanists go, yeah, I guess "enemy" is the right word to use. Although the truth is that I disapprove of superlative techno-utopianism in many other variations quite as extreme as the ones transhumanists exhibit, and I also regard the transhumanists themselves as a rather marginal and noisy sub(cult)ural symptom and extreme of more prevailing corporate-militarist futurological discourses that are far more damaging in their discursive-practical play in the world. I pretty much consider organized transhumanism simply a reductive, techno-determinist, corporate-futurological superlative (which means, roughly, secularized would-be transcendentalizing quasi-religious) ideology peddling pseudo-science, hype, and eugenics. What's to like in that dangerous deranging nonsense?