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Zusatztext This is a fascinating exploration of how online sites and resources represent, and, in some ways, transform death. The book is written in a lively and accessible style. It helps us to understand our attitudes toward death in a new and illuminating way. Highly recommended! Informationen zum Autor Patrick Stokes is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Naked Self: Kierkegaard and Personal Identity (2015) and Kierkegaard’s Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision (2010) and his current research interests include Kierkegaard, personal identity, the philosophy of death, moral progress, the ethics of conspiracy theory and the work of K.E. Løgstrup. Vorwort Draws on ongoing philosophical debates to examine how we manage the digital afterlife of dead people and what their online presence tells us about grief, identity, the moral implications of digital legacies and the threat that modern technology poses to the dead. Zusammenfassung Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension of human existence. Until now. Drawing on ongoing philosophical debates, Digital Souls claims that the digital dead are objects that should be treated with loving regard and that we have a moral duty towards. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, while also making them vulnerable to new forms of exploitation and abuse. This provocative book explores a range of questions about the nature of death, identity, grief, the moral status of digital remains and the threat posed by AI-driven avatars of dead people. In the digital era, it seems we must all re-learn how to live with the dead. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Dying Online2. #TheWorkOfMourning3. Kicking the Virtual Dust4. Ghosts in the Machine5. Deletion as Second Death6. When the Dead Talk Back7. “To be dead is to be a prey for the living”Index...
