Pratiques numériques d’immortalité
The myth of amortality expresses a desire for the body to survive. In modern times, this myth has seized on advances in science by treating death as a frontier to be pushed back. Today this is apparent in a wide variety of forms, such as nanotechnologies, anti-ageing medicine, cryogenics, etc. Along...
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Socio-anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/2195 |
| Summary: | The myth of amortality expresses a desire for the body to survive. In modern times, this myth has seized on advances in science by treating death as a frontier to be pushed back. Today this is apparent in a wide variety of forms, such as nanotechnologies, anti-ageing medicine, cryogenics, etc. Alongside these phenomena, which are both scientific and unpredictable—for their results will become effective only over a very long period, if at all—other immortality practices are becoming more widespread. These do not directly concern the body ; indeed digital technologies, particularly digital safes, provide a favourable context for their realization. These spaces for managing users’ data have recently become sites of immortality, albeit sui generis : the individual, in addition to managing login details, passwords and documents, can send messages to their loved ones after their death, in a form that aims to be dialogical. These new practices not only interrogate the concept of immortality, but also the user’s post-mortem identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1276-8707 1773-018X |