On Not Dying: Secular Immortality In The Age Of Technoscience Abou Farman University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science General

An Ethnographic Exploration Of Technoscientific Immortality Has Long Been Considered The Domain Religion But Projects Have Gained Increasing Legitimacy And Power In World Science Technology With Recent Rapid Advances Biology Nanotechnology Artificial Intelligence Secular Immortalists Hope For Work Toward A Future Without Death On Not Dying Is Anthropological Historical Philosophical As Scientific Category Based Ethnography Immortalist Communities-Those Who Believe Humans Can Extend Their Personal Existence Indefinitely Through Technological Means-And Examination Other Institutions Involved At End Life Abou Farman Argues That Immortalism Important Site To Explore Tensions Inherent Secularism: How Accept Knowing Open Your Finite Meaning Universe Meaningless Secularism Denies Soul Afterlife Cosmic Purpose Conflicts Arise Around Relationship Mind Body Individual Finitude Infinity Time Cosmos Today Shaped By These Culturally Situated Go Beyond Extending Confronting Dualism Alienation Imagining (And Producing) Informatic Selves Separate From Biological Connected Unfolding Interrogates Social Implications Raises Political Questions Whose Will Be Extended? Technologies Available All Or They Reproduce Racial Geopolitical Hierarchies? Human Earth Threatened Anthropocene Why Should Extended What Prolonged Look Like? Σελίδες: 336 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm