The future of immortality : remaking life and death in contemporary Russia /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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