Afterlife Research Articles

The Afterlife of Data

The Afterlife of Data

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

Getting Samuel Sober: The ‘Plus’ of LXX 1 Samuel 1:11 and Its Religious Afterlife in Philo and the Gospel of Luke

Getting Samuel Sober: The ‘Plus’ of LXX 1 Samuel 1:11 and Its Religious Afterlife in Philo and the Gospel of Luke

Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction ‐ by Gordillo, Gaston R.

Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction ‐ by Gordillo, Gaston R.

Joshua A. Bell and Erin L. Hasinoff, editors.The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives.

Joshua A. Bell and Erin L. Hasinoff, editors.<i>The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives</i>.

Tsvetaeva versus Plato (poetry as an exercise in death)

Th e article is devoted to the interpreting of essence of poetic art. In response to the interpretation of philosophy as an exercise in death, proposed by Plato, the author, referring to Tsvetaeva’s works, proves a similar version in relation to poetry. Poetry is the ultimate abstraction from the empirical reality, internal concentration and at the same time the openness and willingness to hear things in the neverending stream of diversity of meanings with their involvement in the noumenal sphere. A poet forces his way through common language and traditional forms of thinking, resisting and obeying, he retrieves the deep layers of utterances and recognizes language in its nature. Philosophical thought in its dismissal from the world which has been thought over before uses the language nevertheless, doesn’t peer into and listen attentively to every element of the language; it is not an indissoluble unity with the language. Poetical thought rejects completely the world which has been thought over before; it is always born for the fi rst time from the darkness of language chaos. Th e poetic world outlook is formed in the sphere where verse-word-life-death is mysteriously intertwined. Versifi cation is an exercise in death and at the same time an exercise in life, an experience of existence aft er death and the only possibilityof surviving. Death-life-verse interpenetrate each other, they are as unthinkable without eachother as well as death-life-philosophy. Refs 12.

Life-after-death beliefs and self motivations

ABSTRACTAn experimental study was designed to ascertain whether three self-motives (death-thoughts avoidance, self-uncertainty reduction, and need-for-control) are irreducible motives or examples of a more basic primary motive with regard to their relationship to life-after-death (LAD) beliefs. The study explored the impact of the three self-motives on adherence to LAD beliefs through three mediators: self-esteem, feelings of disquiet, and thoughts-accessibility (thoughts of death, need-for-control, and uncertainty). Participants were randomly assigned to write about their own death, a time they felt uncertain, a time they felt powerless, or about a toothache episode. The mediators (accessibility of disturbing thoughts, feelings of disquiet-uncertainty, and self-esteem) were measured next. The dependent variable selected was endorsement of LAD beliefs. Results showed that the cognitive and emotional responses produced by the activation of the three motives were similar. The three motives increased the accessibility of uncertain-related thoughts that, in turn, increased the adherence to LAD.

A Study of Afterlife Myths in Korean and Japanese Cultural Contents - Focusing on the Myth of Baridegi and Ijanagi&amp;Ijanami-

현대사회에서 신화는 상상력의 원천으로 새로운 시각에서 재창조와 변용이 이루어지고 있다. 이 글에서는 저승신화를 활용한 한국과 일본의 문화콘텐츠를 검토했다. 한국과 일본의 저승은 유사하면서도 상이한 양상을 보여주고 있다. ｢바리데기｣ 신화와 ｢이자나기․이자나미｣ 신화를 저승여행의 선택, 저승의 유형, 죽음의 형태 등 세 유형으로 비교했을 때 현실의 문제를 해결하기 위해 저승여행을 선택한 이유는 동일했으나 저승의 유형과 죽음의 형태는 서로 달랐다. 한국의 신화에서는 위로 올라가거나 아래로 내려간다는 수평적인 이동을 보이며 서천서역국(西天西域國)이라는 공간이 있어 이를 통해 죽음으로부터의 재생을 꿈꾸고 있다. 일본에서는 이자나미의 모습을 보기 위해 불이 필요했다는 점을 미루어 지하라는 점을 짐작 할 수 있는 수직적인 이동 경로이다. 이자나기와 이자나미의 이별의 언쟁에서 이승과 저승이 분리되었다는 점을 알 수 있다. 이런 특징적인 차이는 만화와 웹툰, 애니메이션, 게임, 드라마 등의 한국과 일본의 문화콘텐츠 사례를 통해서도 살펴볼 수 있다. 문헌의 모습 그대로 활용하거나 새로운 시각에서 다시 재창작되거나 재창조되는 면도 찾아 볼 수 있다. 저승신화는 인간의 보편적인 욕망인 영생과 죽음에 대한 두려움과 호기심으로 인해 생겨난 오래전부터 전승되어 온 검증된 이야기라고 할 수 있다. 그리고 대중문화 콘텐츠에서 저승신화가 문화콘텐츠로 활용되고 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 이처럼 신화는 여러 장르나 대중문화 문화콘텐츠의 소스가 될 수 있으며, 또한 그런 작업을 통해서 문화콘텐츠 활용 가치를 극대화시킬 수 있을 것이다.

Death and the Afterlife: A Review Essay

In Death and the Afterlife (2013), Samuel Scheffler has argued that without the expectation that humanity will survive long after we are gone, without the expectation of a ‘collective afterlife’, many of the things that matter to us would cease to do so. Immortality would not be a good thing since our confidence in our values would depend on our status as mortals who lead temporally bounded lives. The purpose of the present review essay is twofold. First, to embed Scheffler’s ‘afterlife conjecture’ in the wider literature. Although the book has been widely praised for pioneering a new field of philosophical inquiry, thought experiments and analyses similar to those by Scheffler have been well known in environmental ethics for more than three decades. Second, to argue that Scheffler’s reasons for rejecting the desirability of immortality are undermined by his afterlife conjecture. Nevertheless, because we are mortals with diminishing capabilities towards the end of our lives, the afterlife conjecture gives us reason to end our lives even if we have the resources to prolong it. Although collective arrangements affecting the elderly have generally been discussed from the point of view of intergenerational solidarity and reciprocity, the values exposed by Schefler’s analysis offer a new perspective.

Retreating Reality: Chekhov’s South African Afterlives

Retreating Reality: Chekhov’s South African Afterlives

‘A Memento for Mortality’, the Publications of Leonard Becket, and the Afterlife ofHamlet

‘A Memento for Mortality’, the Publications of Leonard Becket, and the Afterlife of<i>Hamlet</i>

A &lt;I&gt;Tessera Lusoria&lt;/I&gt; from Gabii and the Afterlife of Roman Gaming

A &lt;I&gt;Tessera Lusoria&lt;/I&gt; from Gabii and the Afterlife of Roman Gaming

The Afterlife Academy by Frank L. Cole (review)

The Afterlife Academy by Frank L. Cole (review)

Decadence Revisited: Evelyn Waugh and the Afterlife of the 1890s

Decadence Revisited: Evelyn Waugh and the Afterlife of the 1890s

The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden by Emma Trevayne (review)

The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden by Emma Trevayne (review)

The Afterlife of Little Women by Beverly Lyon Clark (review)

The Afterlife of Little Women by Beverly Lyon Clark (review)

The afterlife of Little women

The afterlife of Little women

Strangstad, L. (2013). A Graveyard Preservation Primer; Sweeney, K. (2014). American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning.

Strangstad, L. (2013). <i>A Graveyard Preservation Primer</i>; Sweeney, K. (2014). <i>American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning.</i>

The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo by Miriam Wattles (review)

The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo by Miriam Wattles (review)

Socrates Playing with Meletus: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterlife of a Chreia

Socrates Playing with Meletus: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterlife of a Chreia