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
Biography
Sam Han is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity (2017) and Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (2018) (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), and other works.
