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(Inter)facing death = life in global uncertainty /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	(Inter)facing death/ Sam Han.
Reminder of title:	life in global uncertainty /
Author:	Han, Sam,
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ;Routledge, : 2020.,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 165 p.)
Subject:	Death - Social aspects. -
Online resource:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315446769
ISBN:	9781315446769

(Inter)facing death = life in global uncertainty /
Han, Sam,1984-

(Inter)facing deathlife in global uncertainty /[electronic resource] :Sam Han. - Abingdon, Oxon ;Routledge,2020. - 1 online resource (vii, 165 p.) - Classical and contemporary social theory.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 fromanthropology, 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 andselfies. 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"--

ISBN: 9781315446769Subjects--Topical Terms:

551652
Death
--Social aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1073

Dewey Class. No.: 306.9

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