1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298346903321

Autore

Felsted Katarina Friberg

Titolo

Toward Post Ageing : Technology in an Ageing Society / / by Katarina Friberg Felsted, Scott D. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-09051-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Healthy Ageing and Longevity, , 2199-9015 ; ; 1

Disciplina

362.68

Soggetti

Medicine - Research

Biology - Research

Geriatrics

Ethics

Sociology

Social groups

Biomedical Research

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Part I Transcending Disciplinary and Paradigmatic Tensions in Gerontology -- The Use of Inflection Points -- The Definition and Delineation of Each Inflection Point -- Part II Toward Post Ageing: Critical Examination and Provisional Typology for Understanding the Varied Roles of Technology in an Ageing Society -- Post Ageing -- Moderate Versions of the Inflection Point and Positive Derivative -- Transition Publications from the Moderate Version of the Inflection Point (and positive derivative) to the Radical Version -- Radical Versions of the Inflection Point -- Viable Criticisms for the Radical Version of Post Ageing -- Part III The Next Inflection Point -- The Promise and Challenges of Post Ageing -- Longevity -- Technology -- Philosophical Antecedents for Post Ageing.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies



that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded in a post-human vision for a post-biological future. The book presents a provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts paradigms with inflection points, making the case that society has entered a new inflection point, provisionally labeled as Post Ageing. It goes on to discuss the moderate and radical versions of this inflection point and the philosophical issues that need to be addressed with the advent of post ageing activities: postponing and possibly ending ageing, primarily through technological advances. This book will be a valuable resource for professionals who wish to review the continuum of varied constructs and intersects of technologies ranging from those purporting to enhance the activities of daily living in older adults, to those that would enable the older worker to stay competitive in the labor market, to those that propose to extend longevity and, ultimately, claim to transcend ageing itself—moving toward a transhumanistic domain, and more specifically, a post-ageing inflection point.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910559388603321

Autore

Hose Duncan

Titolo

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes : Prick'd by Charm / / by Duncan Hose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030948412

3030948412

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Collana

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, , 2634-6060

Disciplina

811.5409

Soggetti

Poetry

Poststructuralism

Literature, Modern - 20th century

America - Literatures

Ethnology - America

Culture

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Literature

North American Literature

American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Frank O’Hara: Myth as Madrigal -- Chapter 3: “You in Me, That is What the Soul Is”: The Traffic of Frank O’Hara’s -- Chapter 4: Daemon -- Chapter 5: Tricked Myth Machines: Making Ted Berrigan Making The Sonnets -- Chapter 6: Phantasmatic Transmission: Ted Berrigan’s vida and razo -- Chapter 7:The Textural Shimmer of John Forbes’s Dead Reckoning -- Chapter 8: The Pagan Sermons of John Forbes -- Chapter 9: Charismatic Animals.

Sommario/riassunto

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry. All



three had untimely deaths, excited a collective homage, and developed cult followings that reverberate today. This book tracks the transmission of the poem as charm, the poet as charmer, and the reinstitution of troubadour erotics as a kind of social poetics. Starting with Orpheus, the book refreshes the myth of the poet as mythmaker, examining how myths of “self” and “nation” are regenerated for the twenty-first century and how persons-as-myths are made in community through coteries of artists and beyond. Duncan Bruce Hose’s critical vocabulary, with its nucleus of mythos, searches the edges of phenomenal enquiry, closing in on the work of “glamour”, “aura”, “charm”, “possession”, “phantasm”, the “daemonic”, and the logic of haunting in the continuing being of these three poets as “charismatic animals”.