This short film demonstrates how posthuman feminisms and new materialism can disrupt practices which commercialise immortality.
Stacey Pitsilides
Stacey Pitsilides is an Associate Professor in Northumbria University’s School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries and part of the Design Feminisms Research Group. Her research into death, creativity and technology has been explored through a series of publications and a body of practice, including the Death Positive Library: Love After Death. With collaborators from hospices, festivals, libraries, scientists, and galleries. This practice research has been commissioned and presented at NESTA’s FutureFest, London Design Week, the ESRC Festival of Social Science, and the DesignTO festival in Toronto, among others. She is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), University of Bath, and an elected member of the Council of the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS).
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