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

by: Martin Eggen Mogseth (Editor),Fartein Hauan Nilsen (Editor)

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Publication Date: 2024/6/1

Language: English

Print Length: 156 pages

ISBN-10: 1805395688

ISBN-13: 9781805395683

Book Description

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 mode technology.

About the Author

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 mode technology.