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Woody Evans

Texas Woman's University
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Areas of Specialization
Rhetoric
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Philosophical Methods
Rhetoric
  • Singularity warfare: A bibliometric survey of militarized transhumanism
    Woody Evans
    Journal of Evolution and Technology 16 (1): 161-65. 2007.
    This paper examines the responses to advanced and transformative technologies in military literature, attenuates the conclusions of earlier work suggesting that there is an “ignorance of transhumanism” in the military, and updates the current layout of transhuman concerns in military thought. The military is not ignorant of transhuman issues and implications, though there was evidence for this in the past; militaries and non-state actors increasingly use disruptive technologies with what we may …Read more
  • Animism as an Approach to Arda
    Woody Evans
    IJALEL 4 (8): 116-119. 2019.
    Here we examine qualities of what would be thought of as inanimate beings that lend evidence to the position that J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional universe is animistic. Arda is full of life, and natural things in it, such as mountains and rivers, are often alive or conscious. A close look at the qualities of the stars in particular yields further evidence in favor of animism as a foundational ontology of Arda.
  • Why they won't save us: political dispositions in the conflicts of superheroes
    Woody Evans
    Transformative Works and Cultures 17. 2014.
    Comic book superheroes tend to be conservative and their opponents progressive. Here I explore the reasons for heroic conservatism, review recent disruptions to the trend, and consider what superhuman politics can tell us about our own transhuman and science fictional conditions.