We know how it will all end. But what determines our attitude towards our own and others' death? This issue is addressed in the new work of social anthropologist Sergey Mokhov. Why do we mourn unfamiliar celebrities, while debates about...
euthanasia continue to rage? What causes tragic events like the fire in the Kemerovo shopping mall to split social networks, and how are our views on the passing of loved ones and immortality changing in the 21st century? All these questions intertwine with the history of ideas from ancient myths to modern techno-utopias, and it is high time to try to make sense of them, because when we talk about death, we are actually always talking about life.
We know how it will all end. But what determines our attitude towards our own and others' death? This issue is addressed in the new work of social anthropologist Sergey Mokhov. Why do we mourn unfamiliar celebrities, while debates about euthanasia continue to rage? What causes tragic events like the fire in the Kemerovo shopping mall to split social networks, and how are our views on the passing of loved ones and immortality changing in the 21st century? All these questions intertwine with the history of ideas from ancient myths to modern techno-utopias, and it is high time to try to make sense of them, because when we talk about death, we are actually always talking about life.
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