Limits of Life : Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience / edited by Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mogseth, Martin Eggen, editor.

Nilsen, Fartein Hauan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Death.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Human beings--Effect of technological innovations on.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2024]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Limits of Life".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Calibrating Limits

Part I Conceiving Life

Chapter 1 Limits of Life, Limits of the Body

Chapter 2 Virtual DNA: Traversing Limits through Reconception

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

Part II Considering Transcendence

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

Chapter 5 Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm: Transcendence

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

Part III Confronting the Body

Chapter 7 The Limits of Love in the Technoscientific Future

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

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

Part IV Composing Enhancement

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

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

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781805395195

180539519X

9781805395201

1805395203