Transgression anyone?

Hi all,

I've been following the transhuman term debate over the last few days and I just wanted to ask a different slant on the idea of being transhuman.

From speaking to several on the list about why they want to be transhuman, the overwhelming theme has been about having better functionality. but I was wondering if anyone out there had any other reasons for wanting to be a transhuman. Does anyone see it as a form of self expression, i.e. like in body modification (I think Anders essay on Self transformtion goes into this). The cyborg debates in academia centre on the cyborg, or machine human integration, as potentially transgressive. For example, being androgenous, potentially breaking such dualisms and boundaries as gender, mind and body, race, stigma against disability, difference and so on. I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this. Do any of you see these as possibilites in the future or do you think traditional boundaries will remain as long as traditional institutions remain?

That's all for now

Helen