In this text, I would like to argue that one is able to identify two \nparallel trends in the sociological and cultural-critical accounts of \nmodern society\u2019s relation to death. On the one hand, modern subjects \nseem to be deprived from overarching and socially bonding \ninterpretations of their mortality. However, on the other hand, \ndifferently from many who defend that modern society displaces death \nfrom public discourse and make it a hidden subject to which no more \ncultural answer is produced, it seems that later-modern society actively\n invests in a particular relationship with death: a technical one.. The \nunprecedented rise on life expectations worldwide is an indication of \nthat. For most of the time these gain in technical control over death \nhas been an indirect consequence of general improvement in life \nconditions. Nonetheless, it is observable that, in recent times, more \ndirect and intentional attempts to transform mortality into a technical \nproblem come to the fore. The general argument of this contribution is \nthat it is possible to conceive of the technical taming of mortality as \nan active cultural response to the problem of death in modernity and, \nmore explicitly, in late modernity. As religion, philosophy or the arts,\n technology constitutes a form of responding to the awareness of our \ninescapable finitude. But, differently from them, a technological \nresponse does not promise any transcending projection beyond death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this text, I would like to argue that one is able to identify two parallel trends in the sociological and cultural-critical accounts of modern society\u2019s relation to death. On the one hand, modern subjects seem to be deprived from overarching and socially bonding interpretations of their mortality. However, on the other hand, differently from … „Jo\u00e3o Tziminadis presents a working paper on ‚Responding to Finitude: The Problem of Death between Ontological Insecurity and Technical Security‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[512,513],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}