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Hacking Death: Life-Extension Technologies and the Fate of Western Culture - Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect Chiodo, Simona (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Hacking Death: Life-Extension Technologies and the Fate of Western Culture - Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect
Chiodo, Simona (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
This monograph offers an original and timely reading of the disruptive phenomenon of ‘hacking death’, characterised as the contemporary drive to solve ageing and death as ‘problems’ through technology. It argues that this struggle represents Western culture's attempt to nullify human temporality and, consequently, individual failure
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | November 17, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9781041427322 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 168 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 371 g (Weight (estimated)) |