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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Philosophy @ Western Sydney – Seminar
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F81BD">Patrick Stokes (Deakin)—“How Do We Live With the Digital Dead?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In <i>The Work of Mourning</i>, Jacques Derrida claims that mourning cannot be directed to the dead, who no longer exist, but only towards our ‘interiorization’ of them: “the [deceased] friend can no longer
be but <i>in us</i>”. Such a view coheres with the widespread intuition that practices such as commemorating the dead, honouring deathbed promises etc. relate to the <i>memory </i>of the dead rather than to <i>the dead person themselves</i>. Yet with the rise
of the phenomenon of posthumous online persistence – the way in which deceased internet users leave remarkably rich digital traces such as Facebook profiles – the dead increasingly persist in an exterior, visible, public form. We are, as Adam Buben has recently
put it, “getting better at leaving our survivors with less to miss,” and as I’ve argued previously, this makes it easier for the dead to persist as social entities and moral patients in our lifeworld. Proposed technologies, such as animated avatars of the
dead, push the phenomenal depth of this persistence even further. This leads to a concern that the ontological ambiguity of the dead – their status as both still part of our moral lifeworld and yet radically absent – may simply collapse; the dead, instead
of being mourned, might simply be replaced with simulacra. This raises an important question: can we continue to live with the digital dead without forgetting that they are dead? What features of our relationship to the dead would make this possible?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Patrick Stokes is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has previously held research fellowships in the UK, Denmark, and the US. He works on issues of personal identity, temporality,
death, and moral psychology. He is the author of <i>The Naked Self </i>(Oxford, 2015) and <i>Kierkegaard’s Mirrors
</i>(Palgrave, 2010), and co-editor with John Lippitt of <i>Narrative, Identity, and the Kierkegaardian Self
</i>(Edinburgh, 2015) and with Adam Buben of <i>Kierkegaard and Death </i>(Indiana, 2011). He is a frequent contributor to
<i>New Philosopher</i>, <i>The Conversation</i>, and a media commentator on philosophical matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Date/Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Wednesday
</span><span lang="EN-US">16 August 2017<span style="color:black">, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Place:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.</span><span lang="EN-US">54<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span></span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">[How to get to Bankstown Campus]</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For further information, please visit<b>:</b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span></b><a href="http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy">www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy</a>
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