Joshua Hurtado Hurtado
Biographic Data
| ID | 312178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Hurtado Hurtado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua Hurtado |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurtado |
| SIGNATURE | HURTADO J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6848-7949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thanabots, fantasy, and the ethics of mourning
Thanabots—digital recreations of the dead powered by artificial intelligence (AI)—comprise media that allow the dead to remain present in the world of the living. In this article we unpack the psychic dimension of users’ diverse stances towards thanabots, asking how this dimension can contribute to our understanding of the patterns of users’ responses to loss. Drawing on Critical Fantasy Studies, we examine journalistic reports featuring actual u…
Counter‐hegemonic ethics for sustainable business
Business ethics scholarship proposes alternatives for making companies sustainable. While these models may have advanced business practice, the alternatives rarely challenge the hegemony of the economic system. This article develops a new normative frame for sustainable business by investigating articulations of counter‐hegemony and their ethical implications. Employing political discourse theory and drawing insights from a case in food productio…
Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future collective death
Sociologies of the future offer insights into how the future is apprehended by social actors and motivates their actions. Contemporary narratives of crises in the Anthropocene portray an increasingly likely future: one of future collective death. This article conceptualises collective death as a future that possesses both imaginary and material dimensions. I argue that future collective death generates various affective responses that prompt soci…
Navigating desires beyond growth: The Critical Role of Fantasy in Degrowth’s Environmental Politics and Prefigurative Ethics
As a critical environmental political project, the degrowth movement contests the hegemony of economic growth. Much scholarship has sought to unpack degrowth's proposals to reduce matter and energy throughput and to promote socio-ecological justice, democracy and wellbeing. Few studies, however, examine how the movement sustains itself. In this article, therefore, we explore the role fantasy plays in the movement's emergence and sustenance. We dr…
Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society
Utopian thinking, while necessary in times of multiple societal crises, can easily fall into a trap: Its driving logic seems guided more by an ethos of the normatively desirable or by radical images of societal alternatives. What it often lacks is a precise, systematic exploration of the conditions of possibility for utopia to emerge. Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society, by Simon Sutterlütti…
Exploited in immortality: Techno-capitalism and immortality imaginaries in the twenty-first century
Immortality constitutes a very human desire and its pursuit arguably shapes prominent features of human societies.In the twentyfirst century, capitalism develops technologies that promise immortality as indefinite survival.Scholars who study immortality often showcase the links between technology, social structures and immortality projects, but a critical inquiry is needed to examine how (techno-)capitalism creates immortality projects that expan…
Envisioning postmortal futures: Six archetypes on future societal approaches to seeking immortality
Death is a core feature of the human experience and a main driver of civilisational endeavours. Attempts to transcend it have propelled the emergence of a postmortal society in the twenty-first century, where people have looked into the various possibilities to achieve some form of immortality. While research on the postmortal society and the futures of death have examined the social practices for death transcendence in the present and outlined s…
Care as pluriversal strategy? Caring in counter-hegemonic struggles in the degrowth and environmental justice movements
Overcoming the destructive power of the capitalist world system requires bringing relevant alternatives together in a way that respects their diversity. In this article, we investigate the significance of care – in its ethical, practical, and affective dimensions – in the task of uniting the pluriverse alternatives at moments and sites of counter-hegemonic struggle. Our analysis focuses on the degrowth movement and environmental justice movements…
Towards a postmortal society of virtualised ancestors? The Virtual Deceased Person and the preservation of the social bond
Research about digital immortality has grown in recent years, predominantly focusing on either the social effects of forms of digital immortalisation or on the available technologies. Few studies, however, adopt a clear sociological focus that remains attentive to the ontological dimension of digital immortality. Adopting a future-oriented perspective, this article contributes to the sociological study of digital immortality by introducing the co…
Navigating desires beyond growth: The Critical Role of Fantasy in Degrowth’s Environmental Politics and Prefigurative Ethics
As a critical environmental political project, the degrowth movement contests the hegemony of economic growth. Much scholarship has sought to unpack degrowth's proposals to reduce matter and energy throughput and to promote socio-ecological justice, democracy and wellbeing. Few studies, however, examine how the movement sustains itself. In this article, therefore, we explore the role fantasy plays in the movement's emergence and sustenance. We dr…
Care as pluriversal strategy? Caring in counter-hegemonic struggles in the degrowth and environmental justice movements
Overcoming the destructive power of the capitalist world system requires bringing relevant alternatives together in a way that respects their diversity. In this article, we investigate the significance of care – in its ethical, practical, and affective dimensions – in the task of uniting the pluriverse alternatives at moments and sites of counter-hegemonic struggle. Our analysis focuses on the degrowth movement and environmental justice movements…
Towards a postmortal society of virtualised ancestors? The Virtual Deceased Person and the preservation of the social bond
Research about digital immortality has grown in recent years, predominantly focusing on either the social effects of forms of digital immortalisation or on the available technologies. Few studies, however, adopt a clear sociological focus that remains attentive to the ontological dimension of digital immortality. Adopting a future-oriented perspective, this article contributes to the sociological study of digital immortality by introducing the co…
Exploited in immortality: Techno-capitalism and immortality imaginaries in the twenty-first century
Immortality constitutes a very human desire and its pursuit arguably shapes prominent features of human societies.In the twentyfirst century, capitalism develops technologies that promise immortality as indefinite survival.Scholars who study immortality often showcase the links between technology, social structures and immortality projects, but a critical inquiry is needed to examine how (techno-)capitalism creates immortality projects that expan…
Envisioning postmortal futures: Six archetypes on future societal approaches to seeking immortality
Death is a core feature of the human experience and a main driver of civilisational endeavours. Attempts to transcend it have propelled the emergence of a postmortal society in the twenty-first century, where people have looked into the various possibilities to achieve some form of immortality. While research on the postmortal society and the futures of death have examined the social practices for death transcendence in the present and outlined s…
Care as pluriversal strategy? Caring in counter-hegemonic struggles in the degrowth and environmental justice movements
Overcoming the destructive power of the capitalist world system requires bringing relevant alternatives together in a way that respects their diversity. In this article, we investigate the significance of care – in its ethical, practical, and affective dimensions – in the task of uniting the pluriverse alternatives at moments and sites of counter-hegemonic struggle. Our analysis focuses on the degrowth movement and environmental justice movements…
Counter‐hegemonic ethics for sustainable business
Business ethics scholarship proposes alternatives for making companies sustainable. While these models may have advanced business practice, the alternatives rarely challenge the hegemony of the economic system. This article develops a new normative frame for sustainable business by investigating articulations of counter‐hegemony and their ethical implications. Employing political discourse theory and drawing insights from a case in food productio…
Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future collective death
Sociologies of the future offer insights into how the future is apprehended by social actors and motivates their actions. Contemporary narratives of crises in the Anthropocene portray an increasingly likely future: one of future collective death. This article conceptualises collective death as a future that possesses both imaginary and material dimensions. I argue that future collective death generates various affective responses that prompt soci…
Navigating desires beyond growth: The Critical Role of Fantasy in Degrowth’s Environmental Politics and Prefigurative Ethics
As a critical environmental political project, the degrowth movement contests the hegemony of economic growth. Much scholarship has sought to unpack degrowth's proposals to reduce matter and energy throughput and to promote socio-ecological justice, democracy and wellbeing. Few studies, however, examine how the movement sustains itself. In this article, therefore, we explore the role fantasy plays in the movement's emergence and sustenance. We dr…
Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society
Utopian thinking, while necessary in times of multiple societal crises, can easily fall into a trap: Its driving logic seems guided more by an ethos of the normatively desirable or by radical images of societal alternatives. What it often lacks is a precise, systematic exploration of the conditions of possibility for utopia to emerge. Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society, by Simon Sutterlütti…
Thanabots, fantasy, and the ethics of mourning
Thanabots—digital recreations of the dead powered by artificial intelligence (AI)—comprise media that allow the dead to remain present in the world of the living. In this article we unpack the psychic dimension of users’ diverse stances towards thanabots, asking how this dimension can contribute to our understanding of the patterns of users’ responses to loss. Drawing on Critical Fantasy Studies, we examine journalistic reports featuring actual u…
Sociology (7 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Hegemony (3 works) · Immortality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)