{"product_id":"9783032336491","title":"Techno-Utopianism and Everyday Practice in Sweden New Technologies for Untold Futures","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eTechno-Utopianism and Everyday Practice in Sweden\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eNew Technologies for Untold Futures\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEric J. W. Orlowski\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Anthropology \/ Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first in-depth account of Swedish techno-utopianism and its everyday practices. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, it follows transhumanists, biohackers, cryonicists, and adjacent communities who believe that emerging technologies can address humanity’s greatest challenges and open radically transformed futures. Yet despite this expansive optimism, these groups often struggle to imagine futures that meaningfully diverge from the present, revealing a subtle tension between technological faith, everyday practice, and limited futural horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the historical and cultural roots of Swedish techno-optimism—from welfare-state modernism to Silicon Valley transhumanism and global techno-utopian networks—the book examines how hopes for progress are enacted through bodily experimentation, mundane routines, and references to ancient narratives such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. Offering rare empirical insight into an understudied Scandinavian context, it illuminates how technological imaginaries shape collective understandings of progress, possibility, politics, and the human future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric J. W. Orlowski\u003c\/strong\u003e is a research fellow in AI Governance \u0026amp; Policy at the NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute, a research institute at the National University of Singapore. He completed his PhD in social anthropology at University College London in 2025, and has researched transhumanists and biohackers in Sweden since 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032336491\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51032189927564,"sku":"9783032336491","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032336491","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}