"In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient to process information and…
"Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm explores the ways in which digital media and digital afterlife creation affects social and religious understandings of death and the afterlife. For many people digital afterlife and the spiritual realm largely remains an area that is bo…
Few religious leaders have examined the potential for the positive impact of digital media and digital immortality creation in religious contexts. It is evident that there have been recent moves away from traditional funeral services focusing on the transition of the deceased in…
La 4ème de couv. indique : "Thomas Hobbes argues that the fear of violent death is the most reliable passion on which to found political society. His role in shaping the contemporary view of religion and honor in the West is pivotal, yet his ideas are famously riddled with contr…
Rohde analiza dos tesis fundamentales: la correspondiente al culto de los muertos y la que atañe a la inmortalidad, y penetra en el mundo de las creencias griegas. Así, el autor desciende a las profundidades de la religión ctónica y a las simas de la verdadera fe popular, de la …
Introduction 1. -- Dying Online 2. -- #TheWorkOfMourning 3. -- Kicking the Virtual Dust 4. -- Ghosts in the Machine 5. -- Deletion as Second Death 6. -- When the Dead Talk Back 7. -- ?To be dead is to be a prey for the living? Index. "Social media is full of dead people. What s…
"Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - …
"Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - …
"Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - …
"A lost classic found, a guidebook for life's biggest adventure--death! Gustav Theodor Fechner was a 19th-century physicist, psychologist, metaphysicist, and musician, who applied his considerable intellect to examining the question of life after death. Does it exist? If so, wha…
"This work presents thoughts on the Lacanian subject: what are we as a speaking being? What makes us a human subject from a psychoanalytic perspective? Is it feelings and affect that make us a human? Or was it the Freudian invention of the unconscious that drew a line between hu…