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Taking up new/unseen areas of social injustice, inequality, and illiberty such as biohacking, personal data rights, neuro-diversity, and post-scarcity economics

• Liberty - the concept
• Mind Liberation from Work in the Corporation, Working for Others

• Conduct of scientific research, biorights, biohacking, the biocitizen
• Neuro-diversity, ASD (autism spectrum disorder), introversion, mind emancipation
• Personal data rights: personal genome data, pacemaker/biometric data, neuro data stream
• Automation economy, post-scarcity economy, survivability allowances (knowledge workers and the programming industry – the new proletariat?)

Process:

• Examine the historical conceptual development of social justice and equality philosophies (decolonialism, feminism, queer theory, transgender, neurodiversity, polyamory)
• Develop illiberty concept drawing on: Derrida (democracy to come – inherent illiberty in conceptualization of liberty), Ranciere (emancipation), de Soto (responsibility-taking maturation), and Dussel (Liberty recast as Liberation)

Blog post 3/2/14