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  • Abou Farman

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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    afarman@newschool.edu

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    D - Albert & Vera List Academic Center - 6 East 16th Street

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    Abou Farman

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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.

    His latest book, On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (University of Minnesota Press) will be published in April 2020. 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

    Good Death, Bad Death

    Independent Study

    Independent Study (Spring 2020)

    PhD Proseminar II

    Terminality (Spring 2020)

    The Death Seminar (Spring 2020)

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