{"id":7485,"date":"2020-11-11T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7485"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:15:57","slug":"after-death-e-book","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/product\/after-death-e-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois J. Bonnet \u2013 After Death E-Book"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Book version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/book\/after-death\/\">After Death<\/a>, by Fran\u00e7ois J. Bonnet<\/p>\n<p>At least for the time being, we humans are still finite and mortal\u2014but death isn\u2019t what it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>As the body is technologically extended in space and time, we are split between our finitude and our doubled presence in a limitless web of signs, an \u2018immortal\u2019 world of information.<\/p>\n<p><em>After Death<\/em> offers a penetrating philosophical diagnosis of our contemporary condition: not only an <em>anaesthesia<\/em>, but an <em>amnesia<\/em> in which the compulsions of a hyperpresent colonise both past and future, prevailing over any sense of duration, becoming, or appreciation of the \u2018thickness of the real\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Are we trapped in a kind of counterfeit eternity which, in its determination to synchronise the globe in a denial of death, prevents us from living? Against the anxiety of the constant present, how can we hope to return to the experience of being in time and facing death?<\/p>\n<p>A disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as \u2018eternal, instantaneous, and infinite\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7666,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1603],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7485","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ebooks","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}