Abou Farman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Email
afarman@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - Albert & Vera List Academic Center - 6 East 16th Street
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Abou Farman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Professor Farman is interested in secularization processes, especially in relation to technology and aesthetics. His ethnographic research has focused on technoscientific projects in the US attempting to achieve physical immortality. He is working on a book, Secular Immortal, examining three such ‘immortalist’ strategies: cryonics, biogerontology and artificial intelligence. His first book was Clerks of the Passage, an extended essay on movement and immigration. He has taught Anthropology at Bard College, SUNY Purchase, Hunter College and Princeton. As part of the artist duo caraballo-farman he has exhibited internationally, including at the Tate Modern, London, and PS1, NY, and received several grants and awards, including Guggenheim and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships.
Degrees Held
PhD 2012, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Recent Publications
"Health Beyond the Carbon Barrier: Convergence, Immortality, and Transhuman Health," Medicine Anthropology Theory, 6(3): 161–185.
"Terminality," Social Text, vol. 31, iss. 2, pp. 93-118 (2017).
"Informatic Selves," Gergely Mohacsi, ed., Ecologies of Care: Innovations Through Technologies, Collectives and the Senses, (Osaka University Press, 2014).
"Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds and Persons," Cultural Anthropology, (2013).
"Re-enchantment Cosmologies; Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe," Anthropological Quarterly, (2012).
Research Interests
Religion & Secularism, Science & Technology, Death & Dying, American Culture, Aesthetics & Expressive Culture.
Awards And Honors
Guggenheim Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Current Courses
Critical Found.of Soc Theory
First Year Seminar
Independent Study
Terminality
The Death Seminar