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Freezing lives, preserving humanism: cryonics and the promise of Dezoefication
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory Pub Date : 2019-04-30 , DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2019.1610016
Franziska von Verschuer 1
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ABSTRACT Cryonics denotes research into and the practice of deep-freezing dead bodies for resuscitation in a technologically advanced future. This article discusses the technoscientific practice and rationality of cryonics, focusing on two aspects in particular: the ways in which conceptions of life and death and their relation are being reconfigured, and the cryonic understanding of personality and its relation to the body. It complements the range of topics discussed in the literature on cryonics by adopting a feminist perspective and placing particular emphasis on the importance of taking into consideration the materiality, processuality and relationality of life and death in the cryonic imaginary. The analysis draws on Rosi Braidotti’s adaptation of the conceptual pair of bios and zoe in order to demonstrate that cryonics is premised on the humanist separation of the human as a purely cultural being from ‘Nature’ as his materially determined other(s). The article argues that cryonics seeks to preserve not only individual lives, but also the increasingly challenged humanist conception of human life as exceptional, self-contained and independent of Nature. The notion of dezoefication is introduced to encapsulate the desire to disentangle the human from (his) nature. Finally, the analysis is complemented with Donna Haraway’s approach to a relational ontology, which emphasizes the vulnerability that is associated with relationality. It thus accounts for the humanist bias against relationality and the fear of death as ‘becoming other’, which are considered to be constitutive of techno-utopian projects such as cryonics.

中文翻译:

冻结生命,保留人文精神:冷冻和去裂的希望

摘要人体冷冻技术是指在技术先进的未来中深层冷冻死体以进行复苏的研究和实践。本文讨论了冷冻术的技术科学实践和合理性,特别着重于两个方面:生死观念及其关系的重构方式,以及对人格及其与身体的关系的冷冻理解。它通过采用女性主义的观点,并特别强调了在低温假想中考虑到生命和死亡的物质性,过程性和关系性的重要性,从而补充了有关低温技术的文献中讨论的主题范围。该分析借鉴了Rosi Braidotti对bios和zoe概念对的改编,以证明冷冻技术是建立在人类作为人的人道主义主义分离的前提之上的,他认为人类纯粹是从文化中分离出来的“自然”。该文章认为,冷冻学不仅试图保存个人生命,而且还试图保留日益挑战的人文主义的人类生命观念,即异常,自成体系和独立于自然。引入了去干燥的概念来封装将人类与自然分离开的愿望。最后,该分析得到了Donna Haraway关于关系本体的方法的补充,该方法强调了与关系相关的脆弱性。因此,这说明了人文主义对关系的偏见和对死亡的恐惧,因为他们“成为他人”,
更新日期:2019-04-30
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