Exploited in immortality: techno-capitalism and immortality imaginaries in the twenty-first century

Hurtado Hurtado, Joshua

doi:10.1080/13576275.2023.2266373

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“…In this regard, the dead circulating online are plagued with similar concerns facing users during their (media) life. In addition to questions of persistence or disappearance of digital material, there are numerous ethico-moral, legal, economic as well as sustainability concerns relating to both the dead and those still living (Harbinja 2022;Hurtado Hurtado, 2023;Wolf et al 2022;Öhman and Floridi 2017;Öhman 2024). Technological companies involved in many forms of digital afterlife are revenue-seeking corporations with a sizeable carbon footprint.…”

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Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Harju

2024

Social Sciences

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In the ongoing academic discussion regarding what happens to our data after we die, how our data are utilised for commercial profit-making purposes, and what kinds of death-related practices our posthumous data figure in, the notion of digital afterlife is attracting increasing attention. While the concept of digital afterlife has been approached in different ways, the main focus remains on the level of individual loss. The emphasis tends to be on the role of posthumous digital artefacts in grief practices and death-related rituals or on data management issues relating to death. Building on a socio-technical view of digital afterlife, this paper offers, as a novel contribution, an understanding of digital afterlife as a techno-affective assemblage. It argues for the necessity of examining technological and social factors as mutually shaping and brings into the discussion of digital afterlife the notions of relationality, materiality, and the affective potential of data. The paper ends with ruminations about digital afterlife as a posthumanist project.

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Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Harju

2024

Social Sciences

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Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future collective death

Hurtado Hurtado

2024

Journal of Sociology

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Sociologies of the future offer insights into how the future is apprehended by social actors and motivates their actions. Contemporary narratives of crises in the Anthropocene portray an increasingly likely future: one of future collective death. This article conceptualises collective death as a future that possesses both imaginary and material dimensions. I argue that future collective death generates various affective responses that prompt social coalitions to resist its realisation, and I exemplify it with two cases: Extinction Rebellion and Space Colonisation. I explore how futurelessness and grief motivate Extinction Rebellion's direct non-violent actions to fight against future collective death, while death anxiety and terminality drive Space Colonisation's attempts to flee from it. In doing so, I illustrate the role of imagination, affect and material means in configuring future-oriented socio-political action.

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Digital Remembrance and Immortality: The Role and Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Mourning Practices

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2024

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Exploited in immortality: techno-capitalism and immortality imaginaries in the twenty-first century

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future collective death

Digital Remembrance and Immortality: The Role and Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Mourning Practices

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