Abou Farman
Biographic Data
| ID | 81766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abou Farman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abou |
| FAMILY NAME | Farman |
| SIGNATURE | FARMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-5480-0568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
End notes: No Silence in the Afterlife
This is an excerpt from a book of mourning called No Silence in the Afterlife. The book opens from both ends—not from any beginning. One end is an experiment in afterlife writing. The other end att...
Introduction to synaesthetics
Clay tips of thought
Spiritual Cyborg: Virtual Embodiment From Secular Ambiguities to Ontological Opportunities
AI and robotic technologies are reshaping embodied experience, specifically experiences of the relation of mind to body as well as experiences of “reality,” which necessitate the qualifiers augmented or virtual. Such technologies have allowed people to infuse the expanding assortment of technological experiences with spiritual meaning, thus expanding the ambit of spirituality and religiosity; at the same time, the technology has provided many res…
Transhumanism
The social and intellectual movement known as transhumanism questions the figure of the ‘human’ at the centre of humanism and modern political formations. As part of a broader ‘posthuman turn’ it is frequently associated with technological enhancements that redefine human bodies and their limits. However, the core argument of transhumanism has to do with the human mind or consciousness. Transhumanists suggest that the human mind is reducible not …
Sanctuary Says
In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including its tensions and risks. This short piece is an attempt to bring together the sentiments expressed in those workshops by activists, organizers, students and academics focusing on anti-racist, pro-migrant,…
Response to Langford's review of On Not Dying: Mind the Gap
Mind out of Place: Transhuman Spirituality
Transhumanism, as social movement and ideology, pushes for the technoscientific transcendence of the limits of the human. Some within the movement have also adopted terms like religion and spirituality to denote their own groups and goals and describe their metaphysical forays. Secularism, which is to contain religion and define its domain and boundaries clearly, and maybe eventually replace it, keeps generating religion and spirituality as its o…
Measures of future health, from the nonhuman to the planetary
Health beyond the carbon barrier
Silicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views of life, death, and survival. These projects aim for a future world in which the fundamental ontological categories of mind, life, and nonlife will have finally collapsed into one another thanks …
Terminality
This article is an attempt, through a personal encounter with terminal cancer, to elaborate some of what terminality consists in, compared with other similar concepts, such as living in prognosis, dying, or suspension. The terminal body is a body from which promise, hope, and potential have been withdrawn. Linking it in part to the secular elimination of the afterlife and the confinement of person to a finite body whose time is limited entirely t…
The Political Aesthetics of Border Walls
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds, and Persons
The relationship between life, death, and personhood is articulated by the body, without which there would be no such relationship to begin with. How do secular institutions and modes of knowledge understand, produce, and manage this relationship? What can this tell us about the secular and the body in its purview? As part of a larger ethnography of "American Immortalism," I tackle these issues through a case study of "neuropreservation" in cryon…
Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe
Following modernity's founding dream of human mastery over the natural world, scientific discoveries produced a picture of an infinite, random, and indifferent universe, thus paradoxically revealing the utter insignificance of the "master/dreamer." Recently, the convergence of a number of extreme technoscientific projects-AI, Nanotechnology, Life Extension-has activated science-based cosmological visions in which humans and their "intelligence" a…
Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds, and Persons
The relationship between life, death, and personhood is articulated by the body, without which there would be no such relationship to begin with. How do secular institutions and modes of knowledge understand, produce, and manage this relationship? What can this tell us about the secular and the body in its purview? As part of a larger ethnography of "American Immortalism," I tackle these issues through a case study of "neuropreservation" in cryon…
Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe
Following modernity's founding dream of human mastery over the natural world, scientific discoveries produced a picture of an infinite, random, and indifferent universe, thus paradoxically revealing the utter insignificance of the "master/dreamer." Recently, the convergence of a number of extreme technoscientific projects-AI, Nanotechnology, Life Extension-has activated science-based cosmological visions in which humans and their "intelligence" a…
Terminality
This article is an attempt, through a personal encounter with terminal cancer, to elaborate some of what terminality consists in, compared with other similar concepts, such as living in prognosis, dying, or suspension. The terminal body is a body from which promise, hope, and potential have been withdrawn. Linking it in part to the secular elimination of the afterlife and the confinement of person to a finite body whose time is limited entirely t…
Mind out of Place: Transhuman Spirituality
Transhumanism, as social movement and ideology, pushes for the technoscientific transcendence of the limits of the human. Some within the movement have also adopted terms like religion and spirituality to denote their own groups and goals and describe their metaphysical forays. Secularism, which is to contain religion and define its domain and boundaries clearly, and maybe eventually replace it, keeps generating religion and spirituality as its o…
Health beyond the carbon barrier
Silicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views of life, death, and survival. These projects aim for a future world in which the fundamental ontological categories of mind, life, and nonlife will have finally collapsed into one another thanks …
The Political Aesthetics of Border Walls
Spiritual Cyborg: Virtual Embodiment From Secular Ambiguities to Ontological Opportunities
AI and robotic technologies are reshaping embodied experience, specifically experiences of the relation of mind to body as well as experiences of “reality,” which necessitate the qualifiers augmented or virtual. Such technologies have allowed people to infuse the expanding assortment of technological experiences with spiritual meaning, thus expanding the ambit of spirituality and religiosity; at the same time, the technology has provided many res…
Measures of future health, from the nonhuman to the planetary
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe
Following modernity's founding dream of human mastery over the natural world, scientific discoveries produced a picture of an infinite, random, and indifferent universe, thus paradoxically revealing the utter insignificance of the "master/dreamer." Recently, the convergence of a number of extreme technoscientific projects-AI, Nanotechnology, Life Extension-has activated science-based cosmological visions in which humans and their "intelligence" a…
Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds, and Persons
The relationship between life, death, and personhood is articulated by the body, without which there would be no such relationship to begin with. How do secular institutions and modes of knowledge understand, produce, and manage this relationship? What can this tell us about the secular and the body in its purview? As part of a larger ethnography of "American Immortalism," I tackle these issues through a case study of "neuropreservation" in cryon…
Terminality
This article is an attempt, through a personal encounter with terminal cancer, to elaborate some of what terminality consists in, compared with other similar concepts, such as living in prognosis, dying, or suspension. The terminal body is a body from which promise, hope, and potential have been withdrawn. Linking it in part to the secular elimination of the afterlife and the confinement of person to a finite body whose time is limited entirely t…
The Political Aesthetics of Border Walls
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Mind out of Place: Transhuman Spirituality
Transhumanism, as social movement and ideology, pushes for the technoscientific transcendence of the limits of the human. Some within the movement have also adopted terms like religion and spirituality to denote their own groups and goals and describe their metaphysical forays. Secularism, which is to contain religion and define its domain and boundaries clearly, and maybe eventually replace it, keeps generating religion and spirituality as its o…
Measures of future health, from the nonhuman to the planetary
Health beyond the carbon barrier
Silicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views of life, death, and survival. These projects aim for a future world in which the fundamental ontological categories of mind, life, and nonlife will have finally collapsed into one another thanks …
Sanctuary Says
In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including its tensions and risks. This short piece is an attempt to bring together the sentiments expressed in those workshops by activists, organizers, students and academics focusing on anti-racist, pro-migrant,…
Response to Langford's review of On Not Dying: Mind the Gap
Transhumanism
The social and intellectual movement known as transhumanism questions the figure of the ‘human’ at the centre of humanism and modern political formations. As part of a broader ‘posthuman turn’ it is frequently associated with technological enhancements that redefine human bodies and their limits. However, the core argument of transhumanism has to do with the human mind or consciousness. Transhumanists suggest that the human mind is reducible not …
Spiritual Cyborg: Virtual Embodiment From Secular Ambiguities to Ontological Opportunities
AI and robotic technologies are reshaping embodied experience, specifically experiences of the relation of mind to body as well as experiences of “reality,” which necessitate the qualifiers augmented or virtual. Such technologies have allowed people to infuse the expanding assortment of technological experiences with spiritual meaning, thus expanding the ambit of spirituality and religiosity; at the same time, the technology has provided many res…
Introduction to synaesthetics
Clay tips of thought
End notes: No Silence in the Afterlife
This is an excerpt from a book of mourning called No Silence in the Afterlife. The book opens from both ends—not from any beginning. One end is an experiment in afterlife writing. The other end att...
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (4 works)