Abou Farman: On Not Dying | Taschenbuch

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Cover: 9781517908102 | On Not Dying | Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience | Buch

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Beschreibung

"Farman's Secular Immortal examines "immortalists," people who believe that it is possible for humans to achieve immortality through technoscientific means. These "immmortalists" include people who choose to have their bodies and/or brains frozen in the hopes that they can be reanimated, but also scientists and biologists engaged with extending the natural life of the human. Part history, part philosophical anthropology, and part ethnography, the work is based on communities of immortalists and advocates as well as institutions and organizations engaged in the definition of the end of life, including funeral homes, insurance companies, and lawyers. By looking at three such 'immortalist' strategies (cryonics, biogerontology, and artificial intelligence), Farman's study explores the cultural logic through which immortality projects move betwixt and between logics of religion, secularism, and philosophy"--

Über den Autor

Abou Farman is assistant professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface: Realm of the Possible

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problems of Discontinuity and Indeterminacy in a Secular World

1. After Life: Varieties of Immortality in the Secular World

2. Immortalism: The History of a Futuristic Movement

3. Suspension: Stretching Time between the Finite and the Infinite

4. Deanimation: Matter, Materialism, and Personhood beyond Death

5. Convergence: Secular Solipsism and the Mind of the Cosmos

6. Progress and Despair: The Perverse Dialectics of Immortality as Techno-Civilizing Mission

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	336
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781517908102
ISBN-10:	1517908108
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Farman, Abou
Hersteller:	University of Minnesota Press
Maße:	219 x 138 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Abou Farman
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.04.2020
Gewicht:	0,484 kg

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