ABSTRACT
This paper aims to analyze the current discourses about the problem of technological immortality in some recent science fictions. These will be taken as a starting point for a discussion about the philosophical implications related to mind uploading, especially with regard to an idea of transcendence and abandonment of the body. Finally, we question the place of the utopian dreams of immortality in relation to the “crisis of the future” that we are currently experiencing, mainly related to climate change and the unsustainability of current capitalist ways of life.
KEYWORDS:
Technological immortality; Science fiction; Body; Utopia; Future