Krionika - Nieśmiertelność jako performans językowy
Cryonics – Immortality as a Language Performance

Summary/Abstract: The twenty­‍‑first century is a laboratory for testing various ways of “immortalizing man.” Katarzyna Nowaczyk­‍‑Basińska delves into this issue, analyzing the activities of the Alcor: Life Extension Foundation – the most advanced research company with procedures to posthumously freeze human beings (cryonics). The author states that, given the latest technologies, questions of immortality basically concern subjecting the dead body to various experimental medical operations, changing its original form. Her point of departure is the semiotics of Charles Peirce; she claims that although immortality processes involve the transfiguration of the dead body, they in fact occur in signs (in language).

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