Hacking Death: Life-Extension Technologies and the Fate of Western Culture

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 emerging technologies. It argues that this technological struggle represents Western culture’s desperate attempt to nullify human temporality and, consequently, individual failure in an era of unprecedented demandingness, competitiveness and acceleration.

Offering a unique interdisciplinary analysis combi...