Human Aging and Entropy
In this paper I argue that the contemporary pathologizing of old age is directly tied to the notion of uselessness, understood entropically as that which cannot contribute energy for useful work. The elderly are configured as socially useless and thus threaten the health of the body politic. As a r...
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| Language: | English |
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Radboud University Press
2024-05-01
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| Series: | Technophany |
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| Online Access: | https://technophany.philosophyandtechnology.network/article/view/14878 |