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In Redefining Eternity: Interfacing Immortality in the Digital
Corporate World, Bethany Crawford critically assesses the
implications of “digital immortality” for central tenets of the
human experience - such as consciousness, death, and time - as a
preliminary mapping of the shifting existential paradigms of the
digital age. This groundbreaking new book explores the social
consequences and provocations of a digitally replicable subject in
the current sociopolitical context. It thereby confronts a timeless
philosophical question, imbued with ever greater urgency in our
digital age: What does it mean to be human? Redefining Eternity
establishes the motivations of digital and information technologies
in creating “immortalization” through social and modal
engagement with these new media. By analyzing various digital
services currently promoting immortality, both intentionally and
unintentionally, and engaging with texts by transhumanists and
technologists such as Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt, and Max
More, this endeavor allows for critical interpretation of the key
terminologies, processes, and intentions for an immortal digital
being. Crawford’s findings offer a dynamic foundation for
conceptual analysis of the ramifications of “living forever” as
a digital post-death self.
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