At this years Bergen Anthropology Day (BAD) hosted by department of Social Anthropology and CMI to present some of the current research being done by Bergen-based anthropologists, Will Dawley and Fartein Hauan Nilsen took part and shared some of the insights form their research on Cryonics and AI. Dawley gave a short presentation…Continue reading Cryonics and AI at Bergen Anthropology Day
Category: Kryonikk
Workshop on Death and Kinship in the Age of Technoscience
This October the project gathered ten scholars in Bergen for a workshop on death and kinship in the age of technoscience. The three-day workshop was filled with good conversations and discussions, acadmic and non-adaemic over conference tables, dinner tables, and in the sauna surrounded by serene views at Solstand hotel. Technological innovation in human-computer…Continue reading Workshop on Death and Kinship in the Age of Technoscience
«The I-word»
This is an excerpt from my master thesis Managing chosen life(spans) – Cryopreservation in Europe. The thesis is based on 5 months of multi-sited fieldwork in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and online. I met and spoke with people interested in, invested in and working with cryopreservation from across western Europe with the intention to…Continue reading «The I-word»
Ambassadors and Activists*: Bridging the Life Extension Divides at RAADfest
By William Dawley, Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with Technoscientific Immortality: A Study of Human Futures The Technoscientific Immortality project recently visited one of the largest life-extension events in the US, named RAADfest (for “Revolution Against Aging and Death”). The conference presents research and products for medical consumption. RAADfest refers not only to the event as a…Continue reading Ambassadors and Activists*: Bridging the Life Extension Divides at RAADfest