Limits of Life

Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience

Martin Eggen Mogseth, Fartein Hauan Nilsen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

156 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-568-3 (ISBN)

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New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. New techno-social constellations, such as the ever-increasing presence of digital avatars and genetic screenings, implore us to reconsider and transcend the existing definitions of life and death. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this volume explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life and death are reconstituted through engagements with modern technology.

Martin Eggen Mogseth is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. His current research aims to explore some of the different ways we make sense of our world and the limits and transcendence of such sense-making.

Introduction: Introducing Life

Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen

Part I: Conceiving Life

Chapter 1. Limits of Life, Limits of the Body

Davide Tarizzo

Chapter 2. Virtual DNA: Traversing Limits through Reconception

Martin Eggen Mogseth

Chapter 3. Neither Sacred nor Profane: Reflections on Life in Islam

Arpan Roy

Part II: Considering Transcendence

Chapter 4. After Human Futures: Transhuman and Posthuman Politics of the Sacred

Annelin Eriksen

Chapter 5. Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm: Transcendence

Maggi Savin-Baden

Chapter 6. Virtual Ancestralization: A Glimpse into the Field of Digital Afterlives and Virtual Humans in the US

Fartein Hauan Nilsen

Part III: Confronting the Body

Chapter 7. The Limits of Love in the Technoscientific future

Jeffrey Bennett

Chapter 8. Bypassing the Body? Immortality and Vulnerability in Digital Spaces

Cristiana Anca Voinov

Chapter 9. Triangulating Transhumanism: How Risk, Race, and Religion in US Culture Produce Futures (and Afro-Futures)

William Dawley

Part IV: Composing Enhancement

Chapter 10. Commodification of Implant Technologies: How Businesses Believe Their Products Extend the Limits of Life

Martijn Clarysse, Lieven De Marez & Koen Ponnet

Chapter 11. Beyond the Limits of the Species? The Transpecies Society and the Art of Exploration

Jennifer Huberman

Afterword

Bruce Kapferer

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-568-8 / 1805395688
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-568-3 / 9781805395683
Zustand	Neuware