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ESPINOZA VENZOR, Samuel Ricardo. The Anti-Aging Transhumanist Movement: Foundations For an Ecocide. En-clav. pen [online]. 2025, vol.19, n.37, pp.73-96.  Epub 18-Feb-2025. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i37.720.

This article examines the transhumanist movement, focusing particularly on its anti-aging aspect and its ethical, ecological, and social implications. The objective of the research is to analyze how the pursuit of life extension and the overcoming of human biological limitations, promoted by anti-aging transhumanism, reinforces an anthropocentric and capitalist vision that can lead to ecocide. A critical analysis of transhumanist discourses is conducted, highlighting how their promotion of life extension and technological enhancement perpetuates human supremacy over nature. The main findings reveal that anti-aging transhumanism is driven by a capitalist ideology that views the natural environment as an unlimited resource for human exploitation. The research is organized by reviewing the different branches of transhumanism, including libertarian, democratic, and extropian transhumanism, and comparing cultural and technoscientific approaches. The fundamental conclusion of the study is that the anti-aging transhumanist approach, by emphasizing the prolongation of human life without considering ecological interdependencies, can have severe consequences for the environment. It underscores the need to adopt more inclusive and balanced perspectives that recognize the importance of maintaining a balance between technological advances and the conservation of the natural environment, proposing a rethinking of current narratives to avoid ecocide and promote sustainable coexistence with other living beings and the ecosystem.

Palabras llave : Transhumanism; anti-aging; anthropocentric supremacy; technological ecocide; ecological conservation.

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