Vladimir De Thézier

Vladimir De Thézier (born 20 April 1975) is a Québécois creative professional and political activist. The son of Haitian immigrants, De Thézier was born and raised in Montreal. Under his nickname “Justice”, he became the most prominent francophone transhumanist in the 2000s before he turned into a technoprogressive critic of transhumanism. In 2010, De Thézier became known for having developed the concept of a “green republic”, a state organized according to the principles of naturalistic pantheism, bright green environmentalism, green politics and distributive economics.

Public life

In 2002, while doing research for the script of a postcyberpunk-themed hyperlink film, De Thézier discovered transhumanism, an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. A life-long secular progressive, he embraced and began to promote democratic transhumanism. In 2003, De Thézier founded the Montreal Transhumanist Association (later renamed the Quebec Transhumanist Association), the first and only non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of transhumanism in Quebec, as part of NEXUS, a network of local technoscience-focused progressive organizations he strived to build. In January 2008, he abandoned the NEXUS project and closed down the QTA. From November 2005 to March 2007, he contributed to the Cyborg Democracy web portal and blog.From January 2006 to January 2008, De Thézier served on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association, an international non-governmental organization which advocates the ethical use of emerging technologies that expand human capacities. On 1 January 2008, Justice De Thézier publicly renounced his adherence to the transhumanist ideology and movement. As his driving justification, he cited what he considers to be the three flaws of the transhumanist mindset, which he never embraced:

1. An undercritical support for technology in general and fringe science in particular;
2. A distortive "us vs. them" tribe-like mentality and identity; and
3. A vulnerability to unrealistic utopian and dystopian "future hype".

In 2010, De Thézier became an advocate for the merging of the Quebec sovereignty movement and environmental movement into a “Sovereign Green movememt” dedicated to the creation of the “Green Republic of Quebec”.

In 2008, Cristian Valeriu Jereghi named his Russian rock band Justice De Thézier simply because he liked the sound of this French name after finding it on Wikipedia by loading a random article.

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