Vol.:(0123456789) Postdigital Science and Education https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00227-7 1 3 REVIEWS Review of Steve Fuller (2019). Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era Basel: Schwabe Verlag. 240 pp. ISBN 9783796539466 (Hardcover) Alcibiades Malapi‑Nelson 1 Accepted: 13 March 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 Keywords Transhumanism · Morphological freedom · Necropolitics · Humanity 2.0 · Ecomodernism · Posthumanism · Cryonics A Transhumanist Critique of Transhumanism Almost a decade ago, I wrote a review of Steve Fuller’s frst book on transhuman- ism, Humanity 2.0 (Malapi-Nelson 2013). There, I indicated that, to my knowledge, it was the most philosophically informed and theoretically dense account of tran- shumanism to date. Fuller later wrote two more books on the topic, further elab- orating important themes in the literature introduced in that frst monograph (the theological background of transhumanism, the posthumanism versus transhuman- ism friction, the proactionary imperative, and others) (Fuller 2011, 2013; Fuller and Lipinska 2014). Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era (Fuller 2019) is not just his fourth book in this transhumanism ‘series’. There are two qualitative diferences. (1) There seems to be an overarching assessment of what is treated in the previous books, in a manner of a meta-epilogue: how he sees transhumanism faring today and what the movement will likely deal with in the future. (2) As Laura Søvsø Thomasen (2020) rightly noted, it is decid- edly more personal. The second feature makes the book a very pleasant read—particularly for those who have been following the author for some years and got to somewhat ‘know’ him through not only his writings but also via his copious online talks 1 and social media presence 2 . This book conveys the impression that Fuller was given carte blanche for freely roaming unpursued avenues of thought without ‘scholastic’ restrictions. This * Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson alci.malapi@outlook.com 1 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto, Canada 1 See https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steve+fuller . Accessed 13 March 2021. 2 See profstevefuller.net and (@profstevefuller). Accessed 13 March 2021.