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"Bernstein uses history as well as the contemporary landscape to riase questions about the chaging status of the category "human" in increasingly medically engineered bodies. In wonderfully thought-provoking passages, she muses over the relationships between body and mind, biology and technology to rethink, enlarge and playfully undermine the understanding of life itself."鈥擪ate Brown, Times Literary Supplement

"A magic dwells. . . By holding these different viewpoints up against each other, [and] Bernstein shows us just how intricate the question of what makes us human really is."鈥擩ustine Buck Quijada, Politics, Religion, & Ideology

"Bernstein's radiant ethnography captures the intensity and ingenuity of people striving to conquer personal mortality via cryogenic freezing of the body or antiaging procedures, and connects such singular efforts to broader anxieties about the death of the planet, global extinction, and the loss of all human futures."鈥擜laina Lemon, University of Michigan

鈥淢agnificent, brilliant, and compelling, this is a work of the highest erudition, spanning many different areas of ethnography, science, and history.鈥濃�擭ancy Ries, Colgate University

"With extraordinary ethnographic detail and theoretical depth, this remarkable book tells the story of the Russian immortalists鈥攃hampions of life extension and universal immortality. By positioning them within a rich history of Russian thought on the questions of life, death, and ethics, and vis-脿-vis current debates in anthropology and science studies, it demonstrates that what is at stake is a biopolitical remaking of the relationship between body and mind, biology and technology, and the very status of the human. It is a must-read!"鈥擜lexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

鈥淎 brilliant, carefully documented, and elegantly written book about contemporary Russian visionaries who are striving to make human immortality a reality. Bernstein has taken on a complex, multifaceted subject that has deep Russian roots and global relevance.鈥濃�擬ichele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill