A  domesticação técnica da morte : Anti-aging como projeto existencial

João Lucas Faco  Tziminadis

doi:10.15448/1984-7289.2021.1.38995

Authors

João Lucas Faco Tziminadis Universidade de Erfurt, Erfurt, Thuringia, Alemanha. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-3748

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2021.1.38995

Keywords:

Anti-aging, Technology, Death, Existence

Abstract

The anti-aging program, like other life extension programs, is a historical precipitation of a long process of technological conquering over death. In its horizon of expectations, there is not only the widening of the timespan between birth and death, but also the elimination of the experience of decay and loss of vitality throughout the life-course. But anti-aging also comprises a form of relationship with death: not as a final event, but as an object of consciousness, that is, as a presence in life. Anti-aging reconfigures the presence of death in life in two ways: first, it displaces death from the field of destiny to the field of human deliberation, and second, it identifies the human body as a barrier to the full realization of life and as an ultimate source of risk.

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Author Biography

João Lucas Faco Tziminadis, Universidade de Erfurt, Erfurt, Thuringia, Alemanha.

Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Araraquara, SP, Brasil. Doutorando em Sociologia no Centro Max Weber de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de Erfurt, Erfurt, Thuringia, Alemanha, onde também é pesquisador assistente.

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