Afterlives

Afterlives seeks to submit to scrutiny a concept that more often than not remains an under-explored metaphor. What forms of temporal experience, the thread asks, does the notion of afterlife allow capturing? How can it push us to rethink the boundaries of vitality? And, not least, what might the contemporary proliferation of afterlives tell us about our anxieties concerning life and its ambiguous endings in the 21st century? Curated by Marlene Schäfers.

Marlene Schäfers is holder of a Newton International Fellowship awarded by the British Academy, currently based at the LSE’s European Institute.