(Inter)Facing Death
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-21410-1 (ISBN)
Sam Han is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity (2017) and Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (2018) (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), and other works.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the (inter)face in an era of pervasive death
1 Beyond finitude: the place of death in the modern human sciences
2 “Let’s die together”: online suicide pacts in East Asia (with Nurul Amillin Hussain)
3 Rethinking personhood: death selfies, digital remains and dividuals
4 The coronation of Choi Jin-sil: celebrity death, media events and civil religiosity
5 Terror as death regime: the spectacle of beheading
6 The state, death and memory in the work of Ai Weiwei
7 Image-ing the tragic: the metapicture of banal suffering
8 Life in an uncertain era: biopolitics, thanatopolitics and necropolitics
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 200 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-21410-8 / 1138214108 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-21410-1 / 9781138214101 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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