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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