Vladimir De Thézier

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Vladimir De Thézier is a Québécois writer, blogger and activist.

Biography

Vladimir De Thézier was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of two Haitian immigrants.

Under his Haitian nickname "Justice", De Thézier was a transhumanist activist from 2004 to 2008,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] before turning into a progressive critic of transhumanism.[9][10] In 2002, De Thézier discovered transhumanism, an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of emerging technologies to enhance human mental and physical characteristics and capacities.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] A secular progressive, he embraced and began to promote a synthesis of social democracy and transhumanism known as "democratic transhumanism".[6] In 2003, De Thézier founded the Montreal Transhumanist Association (later renamed the Quebec Transhumanist Association), the first and only non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of transhumanism in Quebec,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] as part of NEXUS, a network of local technoscience-focused progressive organizations he strived to build until January 2008.[8] In 2004, De Thézier coined and used the term "technoprogressive" as a baggage-free alternative to the term "democratic transhumanist".[11] From November 2005 to March 2007, De Thézier contributed to the Cyborg Democracy web portal and blog; and from January 2006 to January 2008, he served on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association,[8] and as special projects manager for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

On 1 January 2008, De Thézier publicly renounced his adherence to the transhumanist ideology and movement.[10][12] As his driving justification, he cited what he considers to be the three flaws of the transhumanist mindset, which he never embraced:

  1. An undercritical support for technology in general and fringe science in particular;
  2. A distortive "us vs. them" group mentality and identity; and
  3. A vulnerability to unrealistic utopian and dystopian "future hype".

In March 2010, inspired by critical political ecology, De Thézier began advocating for the idea of a convergence of the Quebec sovereignty movement with the environmental movement in Quebec into a "sovereign green movement" dedicated to the creation of a democratic republic and a green state in a sovereign Quebec independent of Canada.[9][13][14][15][16] In June 2010, De Thézier became a member of the board of administration of the Intellectuels pour la souveraineté (IPSO)[17] and, on 7 February 2011, organized and hosted an IPSO conference exploring how new generations of young Quebecers view the idea of Quebec independence at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[14][15][16][13][18]

In February 2012, De Thézier became a political blogger for Le Huffington Post Québec.[19]

References

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External links

Writings

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