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[[File:Deux-ex.jpg|right|thumb|Cover art from the first Deux Ex game]]
'''Deus Ex''' is a [[cyberpunk]] (and arguably proto-[[nanopunk]]) video game series set in a [[dystopian transhumanism|dystopian]] near-future from the mid-2020s through to the early-2070s. The world is governed by shadowy oligarchic organisations including the Illuminati, FEMA, Majestic 12 and the Knights Templar.

The augmentations available to the player is based on either [[cybernetics]] or [[nanotechnology]], allowing the character to perform various features of strength, stealth and combat allowing creative approaches towards exploring the game.

One the major themes of the series of of the [[oligarchic transhumanism|social and technological inequality]] of the dominant factions, leaving it up to the player which groups they ally themselves with or none.

Other themes include the role of [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] in future science, with one of the multiple ending choices in both ''Deus Ex'' and [[Deus Ex: Invisible War]] allowing players the option to link with a near-omniscient AI with the aim of replacing the human shadow government with an AI-human hybrid technocracy.

== Story ==

== Themes ==

=== Human augmentation ===

'''Mechanical augmentation'''

'''Nanotechnological augmentation'''

The '''Omar''', an explicitly [[posthumanism|posthumanist]] faction in <i>Invisible War</i>, further develops nano-augmentation in pursuit of both a [[hive mind]] and extreme environmental resilience.  Their name, Russian for "[[lobster]]", references a concept in [[Bruce Sterling]]'s <i>Shaper/Mechanist</i> universe:  an externally synthetic but internally human entity, inverting the cyborg as externally human with synthetic internals.

A substantially less visible third type, '''Physiopharmaceutical augmentation''', is also present in <i>Deus Ex</i> and <i>Invisible War</i>, reliant on psychological conditioning and [[Nootropics|drugs]] to enhance a subject's loyalty, pain tolerance, and physical capabilities.<ref name="physiopharmaceutical-augs">[https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Physiopharmaceutical_augmentation Physiopharmaceutical augmentation] - Deus Ex Wiki</ref>



=== Artificial intelligence ===

=== Political Philosophy ===

Numerous overt and implicit references are made to political philosophy throughout the series.

The Morpheus AI in <i>Deus Ex</i> likens the social functions of [[surveillance]] with divine judgement, noting human desire to be seen and participate in larger groups.<ref name="youtube-morpheus-conversation">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw Morpheus Conversation] on YouTube</ref>  This is extrapolated further in <i>Invisible War</i>, when JC Denton/Helios explains his plan for a just and desirable [[singleton]] world government, directly quoting <i>Democracy in America</i> by Alexis de Tocqueville and citing his conceptualization of an all-knowing "mind of God" as an ideal administrator, thoroughly knowledgeable of all circumstances and incapable of generalized approximations of justice.<ref name="youtube-jc-dentons-plan">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBeoreJr4Yc JC Denton's Plan] on YouTube</ref>

=== Conspiracy theories ===


== Outreach ==

Publisher Square Enix uses the popularity of the franchise to communicate real transhumanist developments, and is even holding an event entitled "[[Human by Design]]" to showcase issues in even further depth. Square Enix have also partnered with [[Open Bionics]] to produce Adam Jensen inspired bionic prosthetics <ref>[http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11885684/deus-ex-open-bionics-prosthetic-arm Deus Ex-inspired prosthetic arms are coming next year]</ref>

A short film, <i>Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary</i>, was commissioned from [[Rob Spence]] by Square-Enix to explore real-world advances in prosthetics.<ref name="youtube-eyeborg-documentary">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW78wbN-WuU Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary] on YouTube</ref>

== Series Media ==

=== Games ===

==== Main series ====

* <i>Deus Ex</i> (2000) (Windows, MacOS, Playstation 2)
* <i>Deus Ex: Invisible War</i> (2003) (Windows, Xbox)
* <i>Deus Ex: Human Revolution</i> (2011) (Windows, MacOS, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, WiiU)
* <i>Deus Ex: Mankind Divided</i> (2016) (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Playstation 4, Xbox One)

==== Spin-offs ====

* <i>Deus Ex: The Fall</i> (2013) (Windows, Android, iOS)
* <i>Deus Ex Go</i> (2016) (Windows, Android, iOS)
* <i>Deus Ex: Breach</i> (2017) (Windows)
* <i>Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - VR Experience</i> (2017) (Windows)

=== Books ===

==== Novels and novellas ====

* <i>Deus Ex: Icarus Effect</i> (2011)
* <i>Deus Ex: Fallen Angel</i> (2013)
* <i>Deus Ex: Black Light</i> (2016)
* <i>Deus Ex: Hard Line</i> (2016)

==== Art Books ====

* <i>Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Design Work</i> (2011)
* <i>The Art of Deus Ex Universe</i> (2016) (also available in a limited edition)
* <i>Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Design Work</i> (2016)

==== Comics ====

* <i>Deus Ex: Human Revolution</i> (2011)
* <i>Deus Ex: Children's Crusade</i> (2016)
* <i>Deus Ex: The Dawning Darkness</i> (2016)

==== Video ====

* <i>Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary</i> (2011)<ref name="youtube-eyeborg-documentary" />

== External links ==

* [https://www.deusex.com/ deusex.com]
* {{Wikipedia|Deus Ex (Video game series)}}
* [https://www.nanoaugur.net/dx/bible/ Deus Ex Bible (Rehost)]
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeusExUniHub/ Facebook group]
* {{twitter|DeusEx}}
{{facebook page|https://www.facebook.com/DeusEx/}}

== References ==
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