The future of immortality : remaking life and death in contemporary Russia /

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As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very limits of the human. The Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of character...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernstein, Anya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Colección:Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
Temas:
Immortality.
Death.
Human body.
Future, The.
Anthropology > Russia (Federation)
Death
Immortalité.
Mort.
Corps humain.
Futur.
Anthropologie > Russie.
deaths.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Anthropology
Future, The
Human body
Immortality
Vieillissement > Aspect psychologique > Russie.
Mort > Russie.
Longevite > Russie.
Russia (Federation)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Limits of Time and Space; Futurism as a Politics of Time; The Future as the Common Cause; Trans- or Posthuman? A Brief Guide; Mortals of the World, Unite!; The Return of the Progressors; 1 Freeze, Die, Come to Life: The Many Paths to Immortality; KrioRus: Bodies in the Deep Freeze; The Avatar Project; Kinship, Resurrection, and Physiological Collectivism; Producing the Post-Soviet Human; Beyond the Sovereign Self; 2 Our Body Must Become Our Cause, the Common Cause; To Bury Is to Preserve
  • Smertobozhnichestvo: Apotheosis of DeathA Body Was Given to Me-What Do I Do with It?; The Spirit of Dialectics; 3 Ending Death by Disease: The "War on Aging"; "Homo Sapiens Liberatus"; Optimistic Biology; The Future of Aging: Four Scenarios; Is Aging a Disease?; Science, Business, and Hope; A New National Idea; 4 Inside NeuroNet; Chips and Mind Melds; Foresight: Reengineering Futures; The Future Must Be Created; NeuroNet: A New Space Race?; The Noös and the Cosmos; Virtually Immortal; Conclusion: Time. Space. Life.; Bibliography; Index

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