{"product_id":"after-death-2","title":"After Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eA disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least for the time being, we humans are still finite and mortal—but death isn''t what it used to be. As the body is technologically extended in space and time, we are split between our finitude and our doubled presence in a limitless web of signs, an “immortal” world of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Death\u003c\/i\u003e offers a penetrating philosophical diagnosis of our contemporary condition, describing not only an \u003ci\u003eanesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e, but an \u003ci\u003eamnesia\u003c\/i\u003e in which the compulsions of a hyper-present colonize both past and future, prevailing over any sense of duration, becoming, or appreciation of the “thickness of the real.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre we living in a kind of counterfeit eternity in which we are effectively already dead? Against the anxiety of the constant present, how can we hope to return to the experience of being in time and facing death?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316106633598,"sku":"NW9781913029708","price":11.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781913029708.jpg?v=1778691248","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/after-death-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}