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(Inter)Facing Death - Life in Global Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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(Inter)Facing Death - Life in Global Uncertainty (Hardcover)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a
transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out
in the open, it now resides mostly in specialized spaces of
sequestration-funeral homes, hospitals and other medical
facilities. A mainstay in so-called traditional societies in the
form of ritual practices, death was usually messy but meaningful,
with the questions of what happens to the dead or where they go
lying at the heart of traditional culture and religion. In
modernity, however, we are said to have effectively sanitized it,
embalmed it and packaged it-but it seems that death is back. In the
current era marked by economic, political and social uncertainty,
we see it on television, on the Internet; we see it almost
everywhere. (Inter)Facing Death analyzes the nexus of death and
digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent
developments in social, cultural and political theory. It argues
that death today can be thought of as "interfaced," that is
mediated and expressed, in various aspects of contemporary life
rather than put to the side or overcome, as many narratives of
modernity have suggested. Employing concepts from anthropology,
sociology, media studies and communications, (Inter)Facing Death
examines diverse phenomena where death and digital culture meet,
including art, online suicide pacts, the mourning of celebrity
deaths, terrorist beheadings and selfies. Providing new lines of
thinking about one of the oldest questions facing the human and
social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars and students of
social and political theory, anthropology, sociology and cultural
and media studies with interests in death.
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