(inter)facing death : life in global uncertainty /: life in global uncertainty. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sam Han.
• Authors: Han, Sam, 1984-
• Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: the (inter)face in an era of pervasive death 1 Beyond finitude: the place of death in the modern human sciences 2 “Let’s die together”: online suicide pacts in East Asia (with Nurul Amillin Hussain) 3 Rethinking personhood: death selfies, digital remains and dividuals 4 The coronation of Choi Jin-sil: celebrity death, media events and civil religiosity 5 Terror as death regime: the spectacle of beheading 6 The state, death and memory in the work of Ai Weiwei 7 Image-ing the tragic: the metapicture of banal suffering 8 Life in an uncertain era: biopolitics, thanatopolitics and necropolitics Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.9; Death in mass media; Death -- Social aspects; Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315446745; 9781315446752; 9781315446738; 9781315446769
• Related ISBNs: 9781138214095; 9781138214101
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