Limits of Life

Martin Eggen Mogseth is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. His current research aims to explore some of the different ways we make sense of our world and the limits and transcendence of such sense-making.

Introduction: Introducing Life

Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen



Part I: Conceiving Life



Chapter 1. Limits of Life, Limits of the Body

Davide Tarizzo



Chapter 2. Virtual DNA: Traversing Limits through Reconception

Martin Eggen Mogseth



Chapter 3. Neither Sacred nor Profane: Reflections on Life in Islam

Arpan Roy



Part II: Considering Transcendence



Chapter 4. After Human Futures: Transhuman and Posthuman Politics of the Sacred

Annelin Eriksen



Chapter 5. Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm: Transcendence

Maggi Savin-Baden



Chapter 6. Virtual Ancestralization: A Glimpse into the Field of Digital Afterlives and Virtual Humans in the US

Fartein Hauan Nilsen



Part III: Confronting the Body



Chapter 7. The Limits of Love in the Technoscientific future

Jeffrey Bennett



Chapter 8. Bypassing the Body? Immortality and Vulnerability in Digital Spaces

Cristiana Anca Voinov



Chapter 9. Triangulating Transhumanism: How Risk, Race, and Religion in US Culture Produce Futures (and Afro-Futures)

William Dawley



Part IV: Composing Enhancement



Chapter 10. Commodification of Implant Technologies: How Businesses Believe Their Products Extend the Limits of Life

Martijn Clarysse, Lieven De Marez & Koen Ponnet



Chapter 11. Beyond the Limits of the Species? The Transpecies Society and the Art of Exploration

Jennifer Huberman



Afterword

Bruce Kapferer



References

Index