On Not Dying
An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortalityImmortality has long been considered the domain of religion. With recent rapid advances in biology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, secular immortalists hope for and work toward a future without death.On Not… Celý popis ↓
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On Not Dying
An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortalityImmortality has long been considered the domain of religion. With recent rapid advances in biology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, secular immortalists hope for and work toward a future without death.On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of immortality as a secular and scientific category. But immortality projects have gained increasing legitimacy and power in the world of science and technology.
Based on an ethnography of immortalist communities--those who believe humans can extend their personal existence indefinitely through technological means--and an examination of other institutions involved at the end of life, Abou Farman argues that secular immortalism is an important site to explore the tensions inherent in secularism: how to accept
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