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What is Beyond the Human Condition about?

What makes the transhumanist movement so seductive is that it promises to restore, through science, the transcendent hopes that science itself has obliterated. -Meghan O'Gieblyn 1 1 Social commentary is most persuasive when it travels undercover. You Can 't Take It With You (1938) is a screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra. It presents as light entertainment: surrounded by a lot of colorful characters, a cute couple falls in love, suffers from family strife, and reconciles at the end. But as was common for Hollywood under the Production Code, the lightness hides a more serious subtext. The film presents two worldviews in conflict: one work-oriented and self-interested, the other home-based and artistic. Banker Anthony P. Kirby returns from Washington after having been granted a munitions monopoly by the government. He's bought the 12 blocks surrounding his last remaining competitor in order to put him out of business. (How that's supposed to put him out of business isn't explained.) There's just one property needed to complete the plan. Kirby's real estate broker offers a massive sum for the place, but the homeowner, Grandpa Vanderhof, resists. Or rather defers. The Vanderhof ho

Author

Robert Frodeman

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN